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Posted by Stan McCann on 01/02/06 23:39
Jose <teacherjh@aol.nojunk.com> wrote in
news:59Tsf.387$xz.307@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com:
> What is the purpose of the common www prefix for websites, and what
> does www2 mean? What is the difference between a site like
> www.mysite.com and mysite.com?
Legacy. In the beginning (of the www), there were servers each with a
host name. Then came web server software that ran on servers being set
up as a www server. There were so few at the time, www became a
natural host name for the www server. www2 came as a result of
unimaginative sysadmins setting up a second www server.
Although unneeded except for those that automatically put www. in front
of every url, most of my sites accept both methods, ie:
http://www.abateofnm.org/ and http://abateofnm.org/. One site I manage
cannot do that as http://www.nmsu.edu/ is New Mexico State University's
site while http://alamo.nmsu.edu/ is New Mexico State University at
Alamogordo's. I suppose I could ask for www.alamo.nmsu.edu alias but
don't really think there is a need.
--
Stan McCann "Uncle Pirate" http://stanmccann.us/pirate.html
Webmaster/Computer Center Manager, NMSU at Alamogordo
http://alamo.nmsu.edu/ There are 10 kinds of people.
Those that understand binary and those that don't.
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