Guidance needed for setting up a subdomain, please
 

Hi, I searched the forum, but I found nothing that was very clear on how to achieve the following:

I have a site domain.com

I have a /subdomain directory inside /web, like this: /web/subdomain

I want subdomain.domain.com to point to /web/subdomain, /web/subdomain being new root dir for the site on the subdomain.

I want to access all files with the same FTP user.


Thanks!

P.S. I tried to setup a subdomain by just setting up a site for it and then added a DNS zone with the wizard if it were a different site, but it doesn't seem to work:
While the subdomain works correctly, the content of the subdomain is shown on the main domain instead of the main domain's content.

Just use the redirect function and set the redirect path to /subdomain/ and the type to L.

hmm... the path would be the server path, like /var/www/... etc?

and what should I do with the DNS zone?

I would like to know exactly what to do.

No, not the server path. Just the path inside the web.
DNS Zone? Same as the main zone for this website.

so, I don't need to create a DNS Zone for the subdomain, right?

So the process would be:

1- create a site standard normally, domain.com
2- inside that site, create a /subdomain/ subfolder
3- create a new site on ISPC, with domain subdomain.domain.com
4- setup an "L" redirect to folder /subdomain/ (typed like that exactly)

is that correct?

and there is no DNS record of type A required for a subdomain?

That sould do it, yes.

Depends on your setup.
The subdomain must lead to you server's ip address so either you have to create a dns A record or you have a dns A record for *

in the normal case of a shared server, there would be no A entry for *, right?

so there is step number 5, which is to create an A entry in the domain's DNS zone, in the same manner as for www and mail.


Thank you for your help.
I think I got it covered now!


Final procedure for anybody searching in future the same thing on the forum :

1- create a site standard normally, domain.com
2- inside that site, create a /subdomain/ subfolder
3- create a new site on ISPC, with domain subdomain.domain.com
4- setup an "L" redirect to folder /subdomain/ (typed like that exactly)
5- create an A-type record associating subdomain to the IP in the DNS Zone of domain, in the same manner as mail or www.

ok, I just tried the above setup, and it does *NOT* work...