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2 total messages Started by Steve Tims Thu, 05 Jul 2001 11:06

#92

Author: Steve Tims
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 11:06

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Most start with www. but I see more and more that are www-less - how
does one get a domain / URL to work with no www?

Thanx

 Steve Tims
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Re: web site URLs

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Author: Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 18:17

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In article <ZXC+A+CzoER7Ewe7@btinternet.com>
           steve@busedu.demon.co.uk "Steve Tims" writes:

> Most start with www. but I see more and more that are www-less - how
> does one get a domain / URL to work with no www?

The *name* makes not one jot of difference: what matters is that the
hostname translates into an IP address, and that there is a web server
running on that machine, listening (by default, although this can be
changed) to port 80, and that the web server *recognizes* correctly that
a request made to the *name* used by the client is correctly to be served
by the *host* at that *address*.

If you were to deploy a suitable HTTP server on your own machine
busedu.demon.co.uk (since you're using Turnpike, I presume Windows, so
you could use Microsoft's IIS, or something free such as Xitami
<http://www.xitami.com/>) and provided your machine was online and
connected to the 'Net (not difficult, with a Demon account and SurfTime),
then people could connect to *it*, using a request of the form
<http://busedu.demon.co.uk/index.html>, for example.

-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                          bhk@dsl.co.uk
    "We have gone from a world of concentrated knowledge and wisdom to one of
    distributed ignorance.  And we know and understand less while being incr-
    easingly capable."              Prof. Peter Cochrane, formerly of BT Labs

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