Right, lets get back to URLs, then. Whats the last part of the URL?
That is the path. Just as the host name states the particular computer the resource is located on, the path indicates the specific file on that computer. It is divided up by slashes, indicating successive layers of folders, and usually ends in a file name. The structure of the path is totally up to the administrator of the server to decide; there are a few standard practices, but none are actually required, and I don’t have room to go into them anyway. One important thing to remember is that on Unix and Linux computers, which make up about two-thirds of all servers on the Internet, path names are case sensitive. This means that a word with capital letters is considered different from one with lowercase. For instance, since our web server runs Unix, you will get an error if you try to go to http://www.wou.edu/UCS/index.html instead of http://www.wou.edu/ucs/index.html. If you have to type in a URL, just to be on the safe side you should make sure to get the capitalization exactly right.
