WWW vs. Http

[Spartan]

I just put up my first (experimental) website and noticed that if you type www. before the addy it will not work. If you just type the addy with nothing in front it will work. If you use http in front it will work. Why is this?

-Spartan

[monster]

The protocol for moving hypertext files across the Internet. Requires a HTTP client program on one end, and an HTTP server program on the other end. HTTP is the most important protocol used in the World Wide Web.

[kram 2.0]

Depends on your host - some hosts have a catch all feature which is nice, but others don't. I sometimes run into that problem with AVG's website. As for HTTP, it's pretty much automatic if you use some form of browser - along with FTP, the lesser common protocol for download, HTTP is automatically assumed...seems like monster already covered that .

kram

[monster]

Originally Posted by Spartan I just put up my first (experimental) website and noticed that if you type www. before the addy it will not work. If you just type the addy with nothing in front it will work. If you use http in front it will work. Why is this? -Spartan

What host are you using ?

[kram 2.0]

Or just simply, what is the URL that works with your website - it's easy to find info on server with that.

kram

[Spartan]

Roadrunner is the host and the URL is

home.stx.rr.com/lor

If you just enter that it will work, but if you put www. in front it will not. That is what I was curious about.

-Spartan

[monster]

That isn't an "real" domain like a www.whatever.com its like whatever.cjb.net I think it has no redirectory. But im not 100%.

[kram 2.0]

Roadrunner...that would mean that you're using an ISP provided hosting solution? I don't think there's much you can do there - if you want to, you can get a free subdomain from ShotURL. All it does is every time you type in your subdomain, it automatically redirects to your real address - "http://home.stx.rr.com/lor".

Hope that helps,
kram

[mairving]

FYI on domain names:
-domain.com is the root domain for the site.

-www.domain.com is a subdomain for the site. Most of the time the www subdomain points to the root domain. Some sites done by idiots IMO, aren't setup correctly. The root domain is www.domain.com. This means that http://domain.com won't work. You have to use http://www.domain.com. Here is one example. Now try the same site without the www. It goes nowhere. Obviously setup by idiots.

-home.domain.com would also be a subdomain. Since it is a subdomain, www.home.domain.com will not work. Subdomains are used because you can very easily setup a site on another server but still use the same domain name.

So you can't use http://www.home.stx.rr.com/lor because that would be improper.