Hi,

I love the Virtual Server Domain Account. However, I need to know something before I sign up for your service. I'm moving from another host and the publicized portion of my site (on search engines, etc) is a subdomain... I looked under the account details but I didn't find anything about subdomain capabilities.

I would really appreciate it if you could reply and tell me if this is possible.

Also, on the "Virtual Server Domain Accounts"... You can install phpMyAdmin right?

Thanks for your help!

anyone?

Yes, you can install phpmyadmin.

i've done it myself and it works perfectly!

thanks

and what about sub domains? are those easy to set up as well?

Setting up sub-domains is a snap! Go to your control panel, select DNS paramaters, then select "delegate sub-domain" from the drop down list. DNS takes the same ammount of time as a regular domain.

Good luck!

I'm not sure, but I don't think you can have subdomains on the Rack ... somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't see how. Other than creating a new domain using the subdomain name.

When you add a virtual site you normally use "www" as the hostname, so say you have a site www.domain.com and want to create a logical subdomain like sub.domain.com you'd just create another virtual site with the hostname "sub" and the same domain name.

Again, as I said, I haven't actually got around to test any of this stuff yet, so if anybody actually know please correct me :-)

Officially correcting you!

http://shippers.fredfarm.com
http://tere.fredfarm.com
http://fanlisting.charlizeonline.com
http://xflinks.duchovny.net
http://xfphotos.fredfarm.com
http://kim.fredfarm.com

I could go on...

Uh, no need to make it official :-)

Anyway ... i think we're talking past each other here .. I didn't mean that it was not possible to have both
www.somesite.com
and
subdomain.somesite.com
just that I can't see it handled from one virtual site from the CP...

So if you go to www.somesite.com you get the files stored in /home/sites/www.somesite.com/web ... how do you decide what's being served to a browser looking at subdomain.somesite.com?

Are you talking about the root folder address? If you are, the root folder will have a different # than the main folder. For example: fredfarm.com's root is /home/sites/site20/web while shippers.fredfarm.com's root is /home/sites/site39/web.

Are we on the same page?

Absolutely!

So you do in fact create a new virtual site for the subdomain (site39 instead of site20) ... right?

Basically, yes.

The easy way, yes you create a new site.

Host Name: www
Domain Name: sub.domain.com

You can access the sub domain as www.sub.domain.com or
sub.domain.com

Your DNS entries are the same to, in the domain spot put
sub.domain.com

The sub part of the domain is not a host name.

This may be a dumb question but...........
Why wouldn't I put the sub as the host name ????

That is the way that I had been told to do them...

If there is a good reason why I should change them, please let me know....

Thanks,

You can do subs that point to a folder in the main domain, but it cannot be done through the GUI.

http://forum.rackshack.net/showthread.php?...s=&threadid=194

Heirophant,

are you talking about the virtual account or a dedicated Raq?

I think the answers you are getting assumes you are getting your own raq, however re reading your original question it sounds like you're thinking of signing up on a virtual account


:confused:

I don't know why Sun Cobalt just can't add something for this seems like it would be easy enough.

Also in regard to the sub of the domain name not goining in the host name, because the "domain" name is not a host for your server. It is simply a domain name.

IT's not true. What they say at this referenced post is for pointing a subdomain sub.domain.com to domain.com/sub directory.

You can put sub at Host Name and domain.com at Domain Name sections when ading a virtual site; if you need to access your domain like http://sub.domain.com

virtual account.