New hosting url suggestion

[smithveg]

Hello,

 

I would like to know whatever we can registered a new url address. Example. www.temporary.com

Then, i open a different directory for different purposes and different kind of sites.

Example.

www.temporary.com/oscommerce

www.temporary.com/joomla

www.temporary.com/forum

 

I know i can only open a new directory, i just want some ideas from you whetever got peoples doing like this?

Secondly, I have mentioned some others web sites have their own forum. But the forum url basically start with http://forum.temporary.com

Is that http://forum.temporary.com share the same domain with http://www.temporary.com or others way.

 

Any answer and reply would greatly appreciated.

smith :rolleyes:

[choosealogin]

I'm not sure if I understand your question, but in this case:

 

I know i can only open a new directory, i just want some ideas from you whetever got peoples doing like this?

Secondly, I have mentioned some others web sites have their own forum. But the forum url basically start with http://forum.temporary.com

Is that http://forum.temporary.com share the same domain with http://www.temporary.com or others way.

 

forum would be set up as a subdomain of temporary.com

 

Your web hosting control panel usually gives you an interface for setting up subdomains.

 

Basically, to add files, etc you access it as temporary.com/forum but with it set up as a subdomain, you can visit it with the link http://forum.temporary.com

[Jack_mcs]

You can do that but if the sites are totally unrelated, like a shop for computers in the main directory and a shop for auto parts in a sub-directory, it would seem rather unprofessional to do it that way, at least to me. If your hosting plan allows you to have add-on domains, you can purchase another domain name for the other shop and have it work out of a sub-directory while keeping the url's different.

 

As for the forums, there was a nasty bug a while back that allowed hackers to damage an oscommerce shop by getting in through the forums. That bug was fixed, as far as I know, but I'm not sure I would want to risk it. If you do have the forums open through your site, have it open in a new browser.

 

Jack

[smithveg]

Thanks for all youe reply.

 

I will measure what is related and what's not related sites.

Besides that, I will just create a forum in my www.example.com/forum.

can i just access by forum.example.com and open in a new browser.

 

The forum hacked you means is what, how can they hack whole hosting site through a forum.

Is the dimain name too obvious and easily for others to understand the sub directories structure?

 

smith

[Jack_mcs]

No, you can't access it that way without setting up a dns entry in your cpanel.

 

Jack