[Sigia-l] URLs and brands

Gupta, Anu Anu.Gupta at mercer.com
Mon Nov 18 10:53:14 EST 2002


>If you accept that the majority of users are just gonna browse company.com 
>anyway, and navigate from there (to new domains or within the same domain),

>you may want to consider the pragmatic issues too. Do some groups want to 
>run their own webservers? If company.com only runs Apache to serve static 
>files, and group 1 needs a dynamic back end (say to do user profiling or 
>database-driven pages), you can't really push the slash concept onto them.
>
>company.com/group1 and company.com/group2 are both served by the same 
>webserver, whereas group1.company.com and group2.company.com may be served 
>by different webservers running on different OSes in different parts of the

>world. Sometimes, this is important.

Actually, there is nothing that prevents "slashes" being served up from
completely different places. For example apache and mod_rewrite will easily
and transparently rewrite URLs to do pretty much anything you want. 

Why not just do both ? Have group.company.com and company.com/group map to
the same place. That way you avoid missing out on users who type one or the
other, and it's all about the user, right ;)

anu



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