HaveBlue

Hey, all! I have my website - www.haveblueonline.com. My girlfriend and I have talked about creating "our" website. She likes to fish, loves the mountains, and is extremely anxious to see what Colorado has to offer. She's quite the shutter bug like myself and has a really good eye. The website posted here a couple weeks ago about the couple's journey in their Land Cruiser inspired both of us. We want to compile our pictures online and make an "us" website. If I were to get a sub-domain, would it be www.alanandbryanne.com or would it be something like www.haveblueonline.alanandbryanne.com? What exactly is a sub-domain? Basically, I'll be moving all my 4Runner stuff off to it's own page and rebuilding my website. I'd like "our" page to be the first to be seen instead of my 4Runner. ANY information and knowledge on this subject would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

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mike_d

well since you already own haveblueonline.com, then the easiest thing would be to add alanandbryanne.haveblueoneline.com as the separate site. if you want to buy another domain name you could go with alanbryanne.com and such.

here's the basics that you really need to know. when you bought "haveblueonline.com" ICANN set up a pointer that points haveblueonline.com to the ip address of your computer. ICANN doesn't care about anything that comes before "haveblueonline.com" when they resolve the ip address, that's your job. it's probably done transparently for you, but the prefix "www" for haveblueonline.com just points to your webserver. the general rule for domain naming is (computername).(domainname).(tld). ICANN owns the ".com" tld and then sells out the doimain name part. you can then do whaterver you want with the info beyond domain name. so what you want to do is get to your dns server and set up entries for other computers or subdomains (you'll need to check the documentation on your own dns server to see how do that).

what i would do is set up your website so that www.haveblueonline.com points to the page you want to be seen first and then have www.haveblueonline.com/4runner be your 4runner page. then if you want to get fancy you can set up your dns sever to have alanandbryanne.haveblueonline.com point to www.haveblueonline.com and 4runner.haveblueonline.com point to www.haveblueonline.com/4runner. that way it all runs on the same computer.

sorry this is probably a pretty poor explaination on how things work, but i'm just not thinking too clearly today.

here's a list of everything you'd ever want to know about domain naming
http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/rfc/

here are some helpful links
ftp://ftp.is.co.za/rfc/rfc819.txt
ftp://ftp.is.co.za/rfc/rfc1033.txt
ftp://ftp.is.co.za/rfc/rfc1034.txt
ftp://ftp.is.co.za/rfc/rfc1035.txt

it's way more info than you probably need, but at least it's much more complete than what i said.

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It is my understanding that most hosting providers wont allow subdomains unless you speciafically pay for it.

ie they dont want you running 8 or 20 or whatever sites off of just one registered and hosted name. (they loose money that way)

a simular way ive always seen used is www.yoursitehear.com/~mypage

the /~ allows you to basicly have its own "site" setup indipending of the yoursitehear part. but the name looks funky unlike mypage.yoursitehear.com

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