On Monday 13 August 2001 09:48 am, George Petri methodically organized electrons to state: > Hello again! > > Suppose I were to buy my own domain name and run the apache webserver > off my computer (mandrake 7.2)... > > What is the difference between http://domainname.com and > http://www.domainname.com. Are they both the same? > > Because, some websites can only be accessed via http://domainname.com > (e.g. http://x42.com), while most only work with www. > Not really and Expert question or a Mandrake question. Let's look at a brief example: com = Petri domainname=William www=George >What is the difference between http://William.Petri and > http://George.William.Petri. Are they both the same? Not necessarily, but they could be the same if the DNS resolves both names to the same machine, for example: www.maximumhoyt.com and maximumhoyt.com resolve to the same machine, but they don't have to. It's all in how the DNS is set up. "www." came into use as part of a machines' fully qualified domain name to differentiate it from other types, e.g, www, ftp, gopher, news, mail. It probably meant something to early web browsers, but both "www." and "http://"; seem to be increasingly superfluous. Hoyt BTW, what is/who are "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" which were the reply-to addresses for this email that I recieved on the Expert list?
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