I must be doing something wrong which is wright under my nose! I cant seem to get my subdomains to work, the path for them is fine, and everything else seems to be in order. My control panel has been set up under a sub domain and that works fine just no other sub domains work!

Can anybody help me!

What happens when you visit one of the subdomains?

How about www.domain.com/subdomain (which is the same as subdomain.domain.com)?

In what way do they not work? What happens?

Well if I do go www.domain.com/subdomain it works and finds the page but if i go www.subdomain.domain.com it doesnt work!

Have you set-up a sub-domain under the domain?

Perhaps if you state the domains we can check DNS etc.

do you have the * wild card record in your dns?

Hi,

I'm facing the same problem, the subdomains dont work.

First I create a sub domain using HELM without any errors or problems, and upload all the files in the folder created inside eg: c:/domains/mywebsite/subdomain/
when I browse directly to the folder everything works perfect
ie: browsing to say http://www.mywebsite.com/subdomain/ works fine

but when I browse to http://subdomain.mywebsite.com does.nt work:( .

I checked the DNS server entries for this website and it does have a "*" record in the forward look up. with all details entered.

When I checked the DNS events log I see a warning which I think happens at every restart

warning desc:

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: DNS
Event Category: None
Event ID: 414
Date: 1/29/2005
Time: 7:55:03 AM
User: N/A
Computer: COMPUTERNAME
Description:
The DNS server machine currently has no DNS domain name. Its DNS name is a single label hostname with no domain (example: "host" rather than "host.microsoft.com").

You might have forgotten to configure a primary DNS domain for the server computer. For more information, see either "DNS server log reference" or "To configure the primary DNS suffix for a client computer" in the online Help.

While the DNS server has only a single label name, all zones created will have default records (SOA and NS) created using only this single label name for the server's hostname. This can lead to incorrect and failed referrals when clients and other DNS servers use these records to locate this server by name.

To correct this problem:
1) open Control Panel
2) open System applet
3) select Computer Name tab
4) click the "Change" button and join the computer to a domain or workgroup; this name will be used as your DNS domain name
5) reboot to initialize with new domain name

After reboot, the DNS server will attempt to fix up default records, substituting new DNS name of this server, for old single label name. However, you should review to make sure zone's SOA and NS records now properly use correct domain name of this server.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp


but then the dns server is started and working.

is it due to this error that the subdomains are not happening? and if soo how to solve this problem?

in my computer name I have'nt specified any domain, I have kept it as WORKGROUP, does this have to do anything with the problem?

Please HELP!

sorry! it looks like I had to update the DNS records with ev1servers.net as I am using their nameservers.