How to divide a website traffic through URL?

[KumarRaju]

Hi,
Is it possible to have two url's for the same website that is accessing two different pages of a website.

For E.g. For a website www.mysite.com, I want to have following url's
1. www.mysite.com goes to www.mysite.com/home.html
2. www.products.mysite.com ...it should redirect to www.mysite.com/products.html

Basically www.products.mysite.com is not a separate website but merely a different page so that website users interested in products can directly come here instead of coming from main page.

Could you please help me how to acheive this?

Thanks,
Kumar

[Chris]

It is called a subdomain and your host can usually set it up for you.

But why? Couldn't you just have users go to example.com/products/ instead of products.example.com? Why the difference.

Technically, the only real reason to ever use a subdomain is if the subdomain is on a physically different server, in which case you need to do that sort of thing in your DNS setup. But if they're on the same file system just use a folder.

[menj]

I don't see the point of why would one want to do that.