Web Server **Resolved**

[SuperChris9]

I don't know if i've asked this before or if someone else has, i'm sure it's been asked, but i can't find it. Anyway, i want to host my own website. I've signed up for Yahoo! Domains and used their domain masked forwarding so i get http://www.xyz.com inseatd of http://1.2.3.4. But the problem is is that it always shows http://www.xyz.com and when you try to bookmark a page, the bookmark will take you straight to the first page.

Now when you sign up for webhosting your pages show up like: http://www.xyz.com and http://www.xyz.com/page.html.

So my real question is how does the webhost set it up to keep the domain name and not an IP address. Does anyone understand this and be able to explain to me how they do this. Is it some kind of DNS Server and can I set up my server to act this way.

I would love to learn how to do this to set up my own server or host