What is the difference between a directory path and a URL?
A directory path represents the directories on your server (and on your home computer, too) that are navigated when going from one directory to the location of another directory or to a specific file in another directory. The path is printed as a list of directories separated by slashes. A directory path, for those used to DOS or Windows, would be something like C:\programs\utilities or C:\programs\utilities\program.exe. On UNIX it would be something like /usr/www/domain/cgi-bin or /usr/www/domain/cgi-bin/program.cgi A URL, on the other hand, represents a file on a server somewhere on the Internet. It can reference the same file on a server as a directory path. The syntax begins with http:// or https://, like http://domain.com/page.html This is the answer to the question.
