What is /www/???

can someone tell me what this is: /www/???

If you have a server, this is your root directory.
If you make a directory under it, say images (/www/images), to access this
directory through a URL, you would type: www.yourdomain.com/images
/www/ is the folder after the .com
You could almost say .com is your /www/ folder
Hope you understand me.

On 04 Jun 2004 in macromedia.dreamweaver, thxmacromeida wrote:

If you have a server, this is your root directory.

"If you have a server, this *could be* your root directory." On a number
of systems, it's public_html; on others it's webroot. There are so many
possiblities, just within default setups, that you just can't say
arbitrarily that it's your root directory.

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And on others, it's "", i.e., nothing.

It just depends - mostly on the weather....

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On 04 Jun 2004 in macromedia.dreamweaver, thxmacromeida wrote:

If you have a server, this is your root directory.

"If you have a server, this *could be* your root directory." On a number
of systems, it's public_html; on others it's webroot. There are so many
possiblities, just within default setups, that you just can't say
arbitrarily that it's your root directory.

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If you have a server, this is your root directory.

No.

This is a case of maybe/could be/might be but Not always is.
Or maybe not knowing what the question is yet.

The original question doesn't really have enough info to narrow down the
scope of a reply.

Guessing that it's about "what is the normal Host Directory" then it's not
www more than fifty percent of the time. Flatly saying it is www means
giving wrong info to the other folks.

Guessing the question is about http protocals and subdomains- then www is
the "normal" subdomain for web access.
something.TLD is your domain name. (TLD is top level domain name)
www.something.TLD is normally assigned to handled requests for a web site.

Anyway, back to the original question- could you give more info on what
context you meant about /www/ ???

Heh, what else would /www/ be? Its a root directory of a server.

On 05 Jun 2004 in macromedia.dreamweaver, thxmacromeida wrote:

Heh, what else would /www/ be? Its a root directory of a server.

On my newly-installed, mostly standard Fedora Core 2 box, it's the
directory *above* configuration, html files, cgi files, etc.

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"thxmacromeida" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Heh, what else would /www/ be? Its a root directory of a server.

why did they bother calling it www, instead of say, w. We don't care
it's World Wide Web, w is easier and faster than www.
Same for http, whatever this stands for, they could just have called it h.

h://w:mysite.c


faster. easier. that's how it should be

Murray *TMM* wrote:

One never knows....

seb wrote:

why did they bother calling it www, instead of say, w. We don't care
it's World Wide Web, w is easier and faster than www.

Fair idea in hindsight, if we were starting with a blank canvas, although
the current convention for URL's is an extremely simple and logical one to
my mind. It could have been much worse given the maelstrom of abstract ideas
and conventions out there among the scientific community.

Same for http, whatever this stands for, they could just have called
it h.
h://w:mysite.c

Well "h" just stands for "hyper" (hypertext transfer protocol) which is
fairly meaningless in isolation. There's also html (hypertext markup
language). So "h" in isolation could have been fairly confusing.

Given the abundance of other protocols (ftp, telnet, https etc etc), I think
http is a pretty reasonable and self-explanatory acronym at the current
status of the development of the internet and world wide web. Who knows what
the future will bring?

faster. easier. that's how it should be

At least you can type a keyword, say "foo", into Internet Explorer, hit Ctrl
+ Enter and the browser will automatically search for http://www.foo.com .
Couldn't be much faster or easier :-)


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