This site is an example of a web site that has a sub domain established.
This page is available from two different URLs
Both URLs point to the same directory location on the web server.
What is a sub domain and why would I want one?
| A sub domain offers a group
or person with a web site on www.caves.org
the ability to have a unique domain name for promotional or vanity
purposes. For example you can request the sub domain of
www.mygrotto.caves.org
or www.mysection.caves.org. A sub domain name will generally be easier for someone to write down or remember than a domain name with a directory structure. For example: When encountering spelunkers in a cave it might be easier to say "Check out our web site at www.dug.caves.org" rather than saying "Check out our web site at www.caves.org/grotto/dug/". A sub domain can be pointed to any subdirectory on the web server. You do not get unique email address capability with a sub domain like you do with a regular domain. However all @cave.org email addresses with work with all sub domains. For example: webmaster@caves.org is the same address as webmaster@nss.caves.org as is webmaster@dug.caves.com. A group or person requesting a sub domain name does not own the sub domain name. It is merely an extension of the existing www.cave.org domain name which the NSS owns. The cost of a sub domain is $xx/year. |
Notes:
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A page referenced by a sub domain can not refer to a page or directory above its by a relative name. It must referenced by its fully qualified name. Here is an example of this: If you came here via http://www.caves.org/nss/ then this link will take you up one level to the NSS home page: ../index.html If you came here via http://www.nss.caves.org then this link ../index.html will not take you to the NSS home page. Of course this link http://www.caves.org/index.html will always take you to the NSS home page. |
Any questions? Contact Andy Niekamp at webmaster@caves.org or, of course, webmaster@nss.caves.org.