Webpages stored in servers

[mosquetero]

Hi!

I am quite new in the Internet and I am reading a book that explains more or less how everything works but I have a question regarding IPs and I cant find an answer for it anywhere.

When you enter to a webpage, for example www.nba.com, you see many labels where you can click (photos, video, standings...). If I understood well, that webpage is stored in a server which has an Ip address, but I guess that server have thousands of webpages, so my question is: how a server finds that webpage? Does a webpage have its own Ip address? and if so, what about those subwebpages (photos, videos...)?

I think is a basic question so I hope anyone can help me.

Thank you very much

 

[DirtyD86]

Hi!

I am quite new in the Internet and I am reading a book that explains more or less how everything works but I have a question regarding IPs and I cant find an answer for it anywhere.

When you enter to a webpage, for example www.nba.com, you see many labels where you can click (photos, video, standings...). If I understood well, that webpage is stored in a server which has an Ip address, but I guess that server have thousands of webpages, so my question is: how a server finds that webpage? Does a webpage have its own Ip address? and if so, what about those subwebpages (photos, videos...)?

I think is a basic question so I hope anyone can help me.

Thank you very much

when a webmaster registers a domain he is given a set of nameservers, for example:

ns1034.yourwebhost.com
ns1035.yourwebhost.com

from there, the webmaster will plug these into his account information for his hosting. what this does, is when someone types in the web address for a particular website, the URL you typed in is then sent to the IP of the server, and from there the server uses the nameservers and redirects it to the appropriate place on the server machine. from here on out, the file structure from within the ROOT folder that was assigned to your hosting plan is mirrored on any browser attempting to look at your website.