[PLUG-Devel] url preference - a matter of syntax (?)

[eric©]

I'm in no way a professional on this, so take the following with a
grain (or three) of salt :P

The way I've always looked at it was as a separation between
"internal" and "external" pages, meaning that if I set up a site for
myself/my company, and pages related to myself/my company would be
"internal" things, and if I were to host pages for other people not
related to myself/my company, those would be "external" pages.
Internal stuff would be thing.domain.com addresses, whereas externals
would be domain.com/thing.

This is strictly a personal preference thing, and from what I've
found, there's no technical difference between one way and the other.
Of course, again,I'm not a professional web designer/web admin, so
there could very well be other technical reasons for doing it one way
or the other, and I'll be paying attention to this thread to perhaps
learn something new.

Eric

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:
> A question came up today at the (server) InstallFest, which I'd like to
> consult the community about.
>
> When setting up a web site|service|thing, the "thing" can be specified as
> part of the URI authority, e.g. a subdomain (as in
> http://thing.domain.com/), or as part of the URI path (as in
> http://domain.com/thing/). The difference just depends on the web server
> configuration, AFAICT.
>
> Question is, which syntax/method is preferable, _and why_?
>
> Assume, for the sake of argument (if you must make any assumptions), that
> you have a Reverse Proxy server (NGINX for example) at your disposal, and
> there are several "things", some of which run on the RP server, and others
> which run on different machines|hosts (virtual or otherwise).
>
> TIA for your thoughts on this. Web links will suffice if you find relevant
> ones. I'm not quite sure what I'd google to find a relevant opinion.
>
> --
> -Eric 'shubes'
>
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