2007-07-30 03:42:30 · 3 answers · asked by gokulkarandikar 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Well the easiest way to think about it is that a web address like yahoo.com is housed on a web server. The server is the hardware that contains the sites, the address is what you use to view them.
A web server may hold only one web address or it may hold many.
2007-07-30 03:46:47 · answer #1 · answered by Tracy L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think about it this way:
Web Address is to Web Server as Name is to Person
2007-07-30 10:46:50 · answer #2 · answered by Jim Maryland 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A web address is name, such as www.yahoo.com.
It is important to know that a service on the Internet, called DNS actually turns that name, www.yahoo.com, into a string of numbers called an IP address.
So, when you type www.yahoo.com into your browser, your computer resolves www.yahoo.com's IP address.
The IP address then directs your computer to the network/Internet "location" for the webserver of www.yahoo.com.
The webserver is then a specifically configured computer that runs and publishes the "www.yahoo.com" site. So when you browse to it, the webs server answers your computer's request for the website by displaying the pages of "www.yahoo.com"
2007-07-30 10:47:30 · answer #3 · answered by ofninam 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋