Subdomains and Apache

[redstar]

A quick newbie-question: how do you set up subdomains in Apache? What I want to do is this:

I have a web site www.domain.com. Now I want to create a subdomain sub.domain.com, and when I enter it in my browser, I want to go to the same web site (www.domain.com).

RedStar

[jojo]

You can do it with the ServerAlias directive. A little example:

<VirtualHost aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd>
ServerName www.domain.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@domain.com
DocumentRoot /path/to/your/document_root
ServerAlias sub.domain.com
</VirtualHost>

Jojo

[Dutzzu]

hm...i have a question here ...

i found on net a similar code with the one gived by jojo

Listen 80
NameVirtualHost *

<VirtualHost *>
  ServerName www.domain.com
  DocumentRoot /home/httpd/htdocs/
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
  ServerName subdomain.domain.com
  DocumentRoot /home/httpd/htdocs/subdomain/
</VirtualHost>

and i'm sure that it's gonna work ...

but now a noomb question .... where do i paste this code in httpd.conf ?

The begining of my httpd.conf looks like this ( i won't paste all file it's to large ) :

Listen 80
ServerRoot "/www/Apache2"
DocumentRoot "/www/webroot"

ServerName localhost:80
ServerAdmin admin@localhost

ServerSignature On
ServerTokens Full

DefaultType text/plain
AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1

Can anybody show me how should i modify the file ?

That's all Thanq

ps : and another noomb question .... witch of this two codes is better ?

[falko]

Originally Posted by Dutzzu

but now a noomb question .... where do i paste this code in httpd.conf ?

This normally goes near the end of your httpd.conf. There should be an example section about virtual hosts. But it might also be in some included file. Which distribution do you use?

Originally Posted by Dutzzu

ps : and another noomb question .... witch of this two codes is better ?

They do pretty much the same.

[Dutzzu]

First of all than'q for answering me falko

Now ... i've got the apache instalation from http://www.devside.net/web/server/free/download ( setup 1.16 ) ...

And about httpd.conf file ... it doesn't have any exemple ... i think it's not a very popular version of apache in all forums i looked the httpd.conf file looks different I hope that's not a problem

I think it's easyer if i put the file ... and if u have time & wish to help me ... to solve it easyer . So here's the file

And about the exemple u saied that it should be ... i found one in other file ( witch is in the same folder with httpd.conf ) named " httpd.default.conf " ... it has a lil' example at the end of the file .... here'is the file If this is what i searched i have to delet " # " before the example and replace it with the code i entered in first message ?

Thank you again for your time

[falko]

I'd put

Listen 80
NameVirtualHost *

<VirtualHost *>
  ServerName www.domain.com
  DocumentRoot /home/httpd/htdocs/
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
  ServerName subdomain.domain.com
  DocumentRoot /home/httpd/htdocs/subdomain/
</VirtualHost>

at the end of your httpd.conf and restart Apache.

[unkn0wn]

must i change some dns record for subdomain? or just edit httpd.conf

[falko]

Your DNS records for the subdomains must point to the correct IP address.

[Dutzzu]

Should i delete something from the start of the document ? or just paste that code at the end ?

[falko]

Paste the code at the end and comment out those directives if they are somewhere else in the file.