Guidance needed for setting up a subdomain, please

[manarak]

the above procedure is wrong, because it still doesn't work.

maybe I should create a subdomain instead of a new site.

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


=> the result of this is that the subdomain redirects to the "It works" page which is shown by the server when one types in the IP directly ??

This is getting frustrating.

[Croydon]

Originally Posted by manarak

the above procedure is wrong, because it still doesn't work.

maybe I should create a subdomain instead of a new site.

Sure you should. Not new site but subdomain!

Originally Posted by manarak

3- create a new subdomain on ISPC, with host subdomain.domain.com and domain domain.com and with redirect type "L" to directory /subdomain/

Did you put "subdomain" as host or "subdomain.domain.com"?
You need to put only "subdomain" there, not the domain. The domain is chosen from the select box.


A site always has it's own web root! A subdomain has the web root of the selected domain.

[manarak]

yes, I did all of the above now, but it *still* doesn't work.

the subdomain now gets redirected to the server root and shows "it works" (default server root for debian lenny)

I'll rip my hair out over this one!
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[Croydon]

Could you post the vhost config file?

[manarak]

Ok, finally, I got it...

My shitty windows system kept me from seeing reality.
Consider this:
- my network configuration actually cached DNS replies, I then fiddled with the settings until the result on the screen matched with the DNs replies in NSlookup and dig
- Firefox cache is not refreshed if you reload/refresh the page. This is almost criminal in my eyes. Please hang the guy responsible for this. As a result the size of my cache is now 0.


Ok, finally the correct procedure was this one:

1- create a standard site on ISPC3, domain.com, with the standard DNS zone from the template
2- inside that site, create (for example by FTP) a /subdomain/ subfolder inside /www
3- create a new subdomain on ISPC, with host 'subdomain' and domain 'domain.com' and with redirect type "L" to directory /subdomain/
4- create an A-type record associating subdomain to the IP in the DNS Zone of domain, in the same manner as mail or www


Thank you Croydon for all your help and your patience.
I didn't expect that Windows XP TCP/IP networking would let me down, and even less did I expect such behavior from FF3.

[Croydon]

Originally Posted by manarak

Consider this:
- my network configuration actually cached DNS replies, I then fiddled with the settings until the result on the screen matched with the DNs replies in NSlookup and dig
- Firefox cache is not refreshed if you reload/refresh the page. This is almost criminal in my eyes. Please hang the guy responsible for this. As a result the size of my cache is now 0.

You are welcome.

It is a bit off topic but:
- you can force reloading of a page in FF by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+R
- you can flush your windows DNS cache (depends on windows version) by typing "ipconfig /flushdns" in a command window

[manarak]

Thanks again for the very useful advice.

but I am still angry at the Firefox guys.

there seems to be 2 types of reloads then:

F5 or ctrl-R reload the page
and
shift-ctrl-R reloads the page too, but this time it really reloads it, not for laughs, guaranteed?