Whats a PURL?

wirm

Spotted this and I was wondering exactly what a PURL was?

tru

PURL

Wirm, your pic has disappeared

wirm

yeah! been to that! already got a purl! but I was looking someone to explain to me about it!

like what they use it for or what I could use it for.....

thanks anyway!

Chippy_Minton

Looks like it's just a fancy name for redirecting one URL to another. This is useful if you have registered a domain name, e.g. https://www.mysite.co.uk, and want to host it on another website (e.g. the free webspace that your ISP might provide). You can make the domain on the registering site forward to the URL of your webspace, and when users go to https://www.mysite.co.uk they are redirected to that same URL. Domain forwarding in this way is cheaper than paying for the extra cost of webspace with the registering service.

blinky

Looks like it's just a fancy name for redirecting one URL to another. This is useful if you have registered a domain name, e.g. https://www.mysite.co.uk, and want to host it on another website (e.g. the free webspace that your ISP might provide). You can make the domain on the registering site forward to the URL of your webspace, and when users go to https://www.mysite.co.uk they are redirected to that same URL. Domain forwarding in this way is cheaper than paying for the extra cost of webspace with the registering service.

Any decent hosting company will let you have multiple domain names on the same (virtual) site. It very easy for the administrator to do.

Bit OT this...

I don't recommend changing domain names, unless it can be helped. If a site has two different domain names, search engines will only index pages under the first domain name it found. In the worst case, if the same site with the same content is on two or more different servers (octets really) with different domain names then one or all of the sites could be flagged up as trying to spam the search engines leading to one or all being banned / blacklisted.

I would also ensure that any domain names you register are in your name (not the ISP's / domain name resellers). It saves a lot of aggro if you need to change servers.

Edinburghlass_2

Back in the old days, when I really was a "lass", it was knit one, purl one ;D ;D

wirm

Back in the old days, when I really was a "lass", it was knit one, purl one ;D ;D

lmao