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Address with a . (fullpoint) in it ?

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  • 04-01-2013 2:15pm
    #1
    Toosey
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 60 ✭✭


    Hi All,

    wondering if someone could help. I have never had to put a . in a url and not sure what way to do it. Is it a whole new domain or some sort of sub-domain. Lets say for example the main site url is

    www.notarealsite.com

    and I wanted to have an annual report for the company on;

    www.notarealsite.annual2012.com

    Thanks in advance

    Rgds

    Toose


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    srsly78
    Registered Users Posts: 7,157 ✭✭✭srsly78


    Are you kidding me? You put dots in urls all the time! It just means a subdomain.

    www DOT something DOT somethingelse DOT com

    To set this up you just gotta change DNS records. Actually in the example you gave, you would make a new domain, and then add your old domain to it as a subdomain.

    Step1: Register annual2012.com domain.
    Step2: Configure annual2012 dns records to include a subdomain called notarealsite.


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    Unregistered.
    Registered Users Posts: 3,532 ✭✭✭Unregistered.


    srsly78 wrote: »
    Step1: Register annual2012.com domain.
    Step2: Configure annual2012 dns records to include a subdomain called notarealsite.


    I think the OP has it backwards.

    What they actually want, from their description, is annual2012.notarealsite.com. Which is a subdomain of notarealsite.com.


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    srsly78
    Registered Users Posts: 7,157 ✭✭✭srsly78


    Yep, makes little difference. Just matter of setting up dns.


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    Toosey
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 60 ✭✭Toosey


    Thanks, had a feeling it was something to do with subdomain but like all things it is easy once you know how, especially dealing with anything computer related .. Will give it a go ..


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    Toosey
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 60 ✭✭Toosey


    Yes that worked, I feel like a right tool now as it was a stupid question ... Thanks


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    The Corinthian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,777 ✭✭✭✭The Corinthian


    Everything to the left of a domain name is a subdomain. By default on most servers this is set up as 'www', so that going to mydomain.com will direct you to www.mydomain.com, however a subdomain may be anything else, such as mysub.mydomain.com or even my.sub.mydomain.com.

    There are two ways to set one up; at the DNS or at the server.

    The former involves changing the 'A' record of the DNS, to point to the root Web directory of your sub domain. The latter can generally be configured on the server using Control Panel or similar, to point to a directory that will act as your root Web directory on the same server.

    Difference? In practical terms doing it at the DNS is necessary if your principle and sub domains are on separate servers and can also remove a small portion of load on your server as it does not have to filter requests as a result. Doing it at the server is often quicker and easier to do, for most, and also means that there is one less point of failure (although if your DNS goes down, you're probably not going to get much traffic anyway).


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