# URL Basics

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/url-basics/36434>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [November 26, 2003, 5:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/url-basics/36434 "2003-11-26T17:28:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![NeoDreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ccd318/32.png) [@NeoDreamer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/NeoDreamer)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 5:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/url-basics/36434/1 "2003-11-26T17:28:00Z")

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I just got a new free host and the URL setup is different than what I have experienced before. For example, on geocities, you get [http://www.geocities.com/loginName](http://www.geocities.com/loginName) , but on this new host, you get [http://loginName.hostName.com](http://loginName.hostName.com) . How does this new scheme set up it’s folders? Like…

[http://subFolder.folder/loginName.hostName.com](http://subFolder.folder/loginName.hostName.com)  
or  
[http://loginName.hostName.com/folder/subfolder](http://loginName.hostName.com/folder/subfolder)  
or  
what?