What you saw wasn't www.root it was wwwroot which is the default directory for IIS to serve web pages from. If you had installed IIS instead of Apache on your local computer what you would have seen is c:/inetpub/wwwroot, c:/inetpub/mailroot, c:/inetpub/scripts, c:/inetpub/AdminScripts and c:/inetpub/iissamples which are all the default folders for the IIS webserver.
The names of the subfolders are pretty much self explanatory i.e. www, mail, scripts, Admin, samples. I never install the FTP portion so I'm not sure if you get a ftproot when you install that component as well. With your apache install if you had another computer networked at home you would reach it by using http://machinename just like on IIS. I have Apache running on the Mac OS X 10.3 computer on my network. If I'm testing something on Apache and want to access it from my laptop I type in http://mac/ to reach it. All of my computers are behind firewalls so they are not accessible from the net. Otherwise I'd have to use a fully qualified domain name such as http://mac.wiserways.com assuming I also configured my DNS server to resolve that name properly. ;-) I don't remember what the original question was re command prompt so I can't answer that. We were at a friend's house by the sea this weekend and I forgot to take the power supply for my tablet with me so I only had the 3.5 hours before my battery rand down for net access and some billable work I took with me. Didn't even get to the class work I needed to get done (both for the class I teach and the one I'm taking on ASP.NET 2.0). So I should be working on homework and billables right now. On the other hand it was nice kayaking though the tidal flats and canals. Cheryl D. Wise Certified Professional Web Developer MS-MVP-FrontPage www.wiserways.com mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 713.353.0139 Office -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Harris Thanks Cheryl, I see the logic of that. But it still leaves the question: what is the browser equivalent of the command prompt command which succeeded. I had been a bit surprised to see 'www.root' halfway through a url (I won't be again) and had just wondered if there was something simpler which was being overlooked. Oh! Such as a missing stop in www.root? ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
