In agreement with bm. The domain (eg google.com) handles many services and the www kind of says which service it is using (www, mail, smpt, pop, ftp...). Of course, as www traffic is probably the most common kind, servers will most likely know what is expected, and act accordingly. Many servers are configured to redirect traffic from (eg) google.com to www.google.com. One reason for this is ...
Hostname is an attribute of a system stored locally on that system. "Computer name" is what Windows uses to refer to the hostname. A subdomain is a DNS concept. In DNS, domain names (domains for short) can be authoritative or non-authoritative - if they are non-authoritative, that means another server "handles" that domain. So in a domain such as www.mysite.invalid - one thing that could ...
networking - What is a hostname versus a computer name versus a ...
Make a guess: Your network environment is using something like Captive Portal that's relying on that non-encrypted HTTP URL for CP login redirection.
Get the netgear wireless extender WN2000RPT working to configure: First make sure the computer is connected to the netgear router via a cat-5 cable and cat-5 lights are blinking. Restart the computer and the Netgear wireless extender. Factory reset using paperclip to hold down 15 seconds until you see an orange flashing icon. Navigate to its internal default IP address 192.168.1.250 ...
I am trying to grant my user write permission to the /var/www/html directory. I have executed so far: # sudo usermod -aG www-data $USER # sudo chown -R www-data:www ...
I see some sites with urls such as www8.example.com or www6.example.com, but I don't know what www8 or www6 mean. Does anyone know what this means and if it's different from a URL that just has www?