Stands for “Uniform Resource Locator.” A URL is the address of a specific webpage or file on the Internet. For example, the URL of the learn scripting website is “https://learnscripting.org/”.

URL – Uniform Resource Locator

Web browsers request pages from web servers by using a URL.

A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is used to address a document (or other data) on the web.

A web address like https://learnscripting.org/ follows these syntax rules:

Explanation:

• scheme – defines the type of Internet service (most common is HTTP or HTTPS)
• prefix – defines a domain prefix (default for HTTP is www)
• domain – defines the Internet domain name (like w3schools.com)
• port – defines the port number at the host (default for HTTP is 80)
• path – defines a path at the server (If omitted: the root directory of the site)
• filename – defines the name of a document or resource