What is a URL? URL explained for beginners | Meaning and Use - Bricknbyte

We may have came across the term URL several times. Let's get to know more about URL.

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Concept of URL 

URL  stands for Universal Resource Locator . It is an address of a document on the server has a unique name and thus, each document has a unique address.

The URL is made of four basic parts:  

• Protocol   
• Hostname
• Folder name
• File name

https://www.weareblogger.com/blog/index.html

• The protocols: 1) http - hypertext transfer protocol 2) ftp- file transfer protocol.
• The Hostname: is the name of the server that holds HTML documents and relative files.
• Folder name: Indicates where folder in which files are locked
• Filename: Name of specific HTML documents and consist of two part viz. 1) Name 2) Extension. 

Types of URLs:

There are two types of URLs categories:

• Absolute 
• Relative 

          1)The absolute URL contains all the information to identify files on internet.

          2) A relative URL points to files in the same folder or on the same server

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