DNS question

prudens · 07-22-2009, 08:50 PM

Hi,

I have in my registrar A Host pointed www.domain.com to 192.222.1.1 (suppose that's my IP)

and I have a forums subdomain on it: forums.domain.com, which is located in /var/www/forums

But whenever I visit forums.domain.com, it actually just goes to domain.com...

So, how do I point forums.domain.com to 192.222.1.1/forums?

Thanks in advance

blacky_5251 · 07-22-2009, 11:57 PM

If www.domain.com and forums.domain.com are the same machine, then this isn't a DNS question it is an Apache question. You need to create a virtual web server on the machine to support forums.domain.com.

In your /etc/httpd/conf/http.conf file (you don't tell us which distro so I'm assuming RHEL or a derivative), add something like this:-

Code:

<VirtualHost 192.222.1.1:80>
  ServerName       forums.domain.com
  ServerAdmin      webmaster@domain.com
  DocumentRoot     /var/www/forums
</VirtualHost>

Google "Apache virtual host" if you need to understand these settings.

If this is all too complicated, install WebMin and use it to configure your Virtual Host settings for you.

thewebhostingdir · 07-23-2009, 12:00 AM

I am assuming that the domain.com and forums.domain.com are on the same server..
you do not need to point the subdomain to IP/forums. You just need to point forums.domain.com to your IP address.

As far as I know, this will redirect the subdomain to the particular directory..

If this still not work (after giving some time for propagation), you can add a CNAME record for forums pointing to the same IP..

blacky_5251 · 07-23-2009, 12:40 AM

If forums.domain.com is a different website on the same server, then you need to add the VirtualHost entry I provided earlier.

It doesn't happen by magic...

prudens · 07-23-2009, 11:15 PM

It's Ubuntu. Same server. How do I do it?

blacky_5251 · 07-23-2009, 11:20 PM

Its Apache. Read their doco on virtual hosts - http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/vhosts/