Steady

Hi,

I am a little puzzled about the tilde charachter " ~ " that is meant to appear in some url's, especially before name servers have been transferred across and testing is occurring etc.

Is this charachter necessary?

For example:

http://merlin.xssl.net/mysite.co.uk/ [without the tilde]

seems to work just as well as:

http://merlin.xssl.net/~mysite.co.uk/ [with the tilde]


What is technically correct and could you give a simple explanation please?

Thanks.

Colin - a novice

UH-Simon

If you're using the preview URL with the domain name then the tilde is NOT required.

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Steady

Hi Simon,

Thanks for the reply, but I don't fully understand what you mean?

Is it necessary (the tilde ~ symbol) at any time or can I just ignore it?

I'd hate to think I understand something when I don't really.

Is it possible to re-clarify this for a dumbo (me)?

Regards,
Colin

TonyW

You don't need the tilde symbol. It can be used, but not necessary. I believe the tilde gets added automatically to the preview URL anyway whether you add it or not.

UH-Matt

Most things will work with and without the tilde.

Generally people prefer to use the tilde to seperate the fact that your looking at a different users own html folder (example: www.domain.com/~someuser/) than just a folder of the main website (example: www.domain.com/forum/).

With or without can purely be your own style

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Steady

Thanks for the clarification guys.

Much appreciated.
Colin