Sub Domains

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Wed May 17 23:04:29 UTC 2000


In article <8fv7l0$k3i$1 at newssvr03-int.news.prodigy.com>,
IcEMaN <iceman__01 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>Hey everyone.
>
>I was wondering if anyone knows how to set up a subdomain to point to a
>subdirectory of a server.  If say I have a domain xyz.com who's server is
>111.111.111.111 and want sub.xyz.com to point to 111.111.111.111/sub/, how
>would I do that?  Is it even possible?

In DNS, make sub.xyz.com an alias:

sub.xyz.com. CNAME xyz.com.

Then configure the virtual hosts in your web server the same way you would
if they were two unrelated domains.

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