Is this a sub domain?

[nin9abadga]

hi all i have a question that i'd appreciate your help with

i want to promote a particular section in our website on our adverts, i.e. www.website/section.htm.

i want to keep it as simple as possible so would prefer it if i could leave out the .htm bit and have the site find the right page if all the user typed in was www.website/section (at the moment it's a 404 error if you miss the extension).

so my question is, how do i accomplish this? is it a sub domain? some of the stuff i've read would seem to contradict it if not what is it?

thanks for any help you can give. oh and if makes any difference all the pages are static html.

 

[mr.sly]

Make sure the page you want your visitors to see in that folder is called "index.htm" or "index.html"

 

[unknowndomain]

1://2.3.4.5/6/7.8

1. Communication protocal (http, ftp, smb, rdc, etc...)
2. Sub domain (usually www)
3. Domain name (or another subdomain you can have sub .... domains)
4. Top level domain (.com or .co for example)
5. Second level domain (.uk or .ca)
6. Folder(s)
7. Filename
8. File extension/type

example...

http://www.domainname.co.uk/foldername/filename.htm

 

[RandomTom]

A few ways to do this:

1. Create a folder called section and put the index file in that but the link would be www.website.com/section/

2. Use a mod re-write, you don't need to understand it, just google it and put it in the htaccess file so that your file extensions like .php aren't read like www.website.com/section (i used this for my dvno site in build in my sig)

3. create a subdomain like: www.section.website.com