Are there any problems making the URI/URN publicly available?

[John_Betong]

I recently transferred my sites from Shared Hosting to a Cloud/Virtual Private Server and can now access the site using a URI/URN.

I am curious to know of any problems, benefits or should I use a .htaccess file to redirect to one of the URLs?

Personally I think it is bonus and can experiment without having to use one of the URLs.

[HostOnNet]

What you mean by URI/URN ? You can access site with out URL ?

It is better to have one URL for web site, i used to set my sites with out www, recently changed to with www because if you use http://yourdomain.extn, any cookie set is available to all sub domains, that is extra traffic, security issue can be avoid when using www in your URL.

For IP on the server, i always set a default page, that way no virtual host content will be available via IP address, i don’t think it is good to have your content available via IP.

[John_Betong]

@HostOnNet

What you mean by URI/URN ? You can access site with out URL?

The server has a unique IP_ADDRESS “http://12.34.56.79” which accesses the site. The domain URLs access the same server by using URLs e.g. “http://domain-one.com”, “http://domain-two.com” , etc

It is better to have one URL for web site, i used to set my sites with out www, recently changed to with www because if you use http://yourdomain.extn, any cookie set is available to all sub domains, that is extra traffic, security issue can be avoid when using www in your URL.

I am interested; have you a specific reference that I could read?

For IP on the server, i always set a default page, that way no virtual host content will be available via IP address, i don’t think it is good to have your content available via IP.

Maybe I have incorrectly set the VPSs directory structure. Each URL is working independently and Google Webmaster Tools is not screaming about server errors. It is just the unique IP_ADDRESS that I am concerned if it is open to the general public.

N.B. Although extensive reading about IP Address, URLs, URIs, URNs I am still confused due to conflicting reports.

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[HostOnNet]

@John_Betong

The server has a unique IP_ADDRESS “http://12.34.56.79” which accesses the site.

I always disable this. Put a bank index.html file in folder /var/www/html

Create a new apache VirtualHost entry for your web site.

I generally keep my sites in /home/domainname/public_html folder like cpanel servers do (but with actual domain name).

Here is an example VirtualHost entry used by one of my web site

<VirtualHost SERVER_IP:80>
    ServerName my-domain.com
    ServerAlias www.my-domain.com
    ServerAdmin info@my-domain.com
    CustomLog /var/log/httpd/my-domain.com.log combined
    DocumentRoot /home/my-domain.com/public_html
    <Directory "/home/my-domain.com/public_html/">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

@John_Betong

The domain URLs access the same server by using URLs e.g. “http://domain-one.com”, “http://domain-two.com” , etc

I would redirect these urls into one url, this way google have no duplicate content.

@John_Betong

I am interested; have you a specific reference that I could read?

http://www.yes-www.org/why-use-www/

Another reason has to do with cookies. One common web site optimization is to serve static content from a subdomain, such as static.example.com. If you are using www, then this is no problem; your site’s cookies won’t be sent to the static subdomain (unless you explicitly set them up to do so). If you use the naked domain, the cookies get sent to all subdomains

This made me change my preferred url from http://yourdomain.com to http://www.yourdomain.com