hi people

was the diff between virtual host and sub domain..?

I've been looking on how to set up a sub domain

EG: http://www.forums.my_site.com/

I've looked though here and i cant seem to find one..

http://www.redhat.com/apps/search/results.html

any one help me out on how its done.

I've created my dir for the site under

/var/www/html/forums

now what

tommytomato

For one, I dont think sub domains are able to start with www. If your domain is 'www.mydomain.com' then your sub domains would be 'http://subdomain.mydomain.com'.

In my opinion, a virtual host is simply a section of space allocated to hold a website. For example.

In your home machine, your main website (www.youdomain.com) would maybe point to the root of your server (/usr/pkg/apache/htdocs/).
If someone was to request the subdomain (http://subdomain.yourdomain.com) it may point to a subfolder within your route, i.e, /usr/pkg/apache/htdocs/subdomain/

I hope this helps.

Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. but this is what I think they are from my experience in webdesign.

As for setting up a sub domain, I dont have a clue, I've only been using linux for a week

your right, i shouldn't have put the www, wasn't thinking straight.

yer it would be http://forums.my_site.com/

i have a feeling that this was some thing to do with..

[CODE]VirtualHost example:
# Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
# The first VirtualHost section is used for requests without a known
# server name.
#
#<VirtualHost *:80>
# ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
# DocumentRoot /www/docs/dummy-host.example.com
# ServerName dummy-host.example.com
# ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
# CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
#</VirtualHost>
CODE]

but i dont quiet understand it...

tommytomato

update

from http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/vhosts/ip-based.html

i'm taking a guess here

i add this to my httpd.conf

<VirtualHost *>

DocumentRoot /www/html/forums
ServerName forums.my_site.com

# Other directives here <------unsure what that means ?


</VirtualHost>


any one fill me in please.

tommytomato