Subdomain to subdirectory

[jenvillarreal]

I have a website that I want a subdomain to go to a subdirectory of the main site. For example, I want sub.mydomain.com to go to mydomain.com/sub.

I have the subdomain working, but it just goes to the main site. I know I need a DNS entry in the zone file, and I did that by making an A record and pointing it to the IP of the main site like this:

$ORIGIN mydomain.com.
mail IN A 123.12.123.123
ftp IN A 123.12.123.123
www IN A 123.12.123.123
sub IN A 123.12.123.123


I also made a VirtualHost entry in the http.conf file that looks like this:

<VirtualHost sub.mydomain.com>
User myuser
Group mygroup
ServerName sub.mydomain.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@mydomain.com
DocumentRoot /home/mydir/mydomain-

http://www/sub/

TransferLog /home/mydir/mydomain-logs/access-log
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/mydir/mydomain-

http://www/cgi-bin/

</VirtualHost>

I am obviously doing something wrong. Can someone please help me out! Thanks in advance, -Jenn.

 

[RhythmAce]

Since you have the same ip for everything, you need to use name based addressing. Do this by uncommenting this line:

#NameVirtualHost *

Then change <VirtualHost sub.mydomain.com> to:

<VirtualHost *>

You will also need to create a container for your main server. If you use one vhost in apache, you have to make everything a vhost. The default will be the 1st one defined. Make sure you use the ServerName directive in each container.

 

[RhythmAce]

One more thing. You will need to change UseCanonicalName On to Off. Some distros need this in each container

 

[jenvillarreal]

I am nervous about changing settings that will then apply to everyone. We are a small hosting company with a couple hundred accounts listing in the http.conf file. If I change that will it affect anyone else? Also, I searched the file for #NameVirtualHost * and it is no where in the file. Should I add it? Thanks, sorry for being such a pain. -Jenn.

 

[RhythmAce]

If you have a couple hundred domains on your server, then you shouldn't have to change a thing. There is no reason you can't have a sub-domain defined the same way as a domain. There is no law that says a sub-domain has to be under the domain's DocumentRoot. You can have it next to it just as the other domains. Wullie brought up a good point in a thread a couple weeks back that seemed to be easier than creating a container for each domain then having to reboot the server every time you changed httpd.conf. You might take a look at it here thread65-285214 . I hope you find the answer to your problem.