Adding sub domain website

Question

I recently purchased a VPS hosting and everything went well.

I tried to set a blog for my site as follows :

blog.trimhold.com

I created in DNS manager a Cname that points to : www.trimhold.com/blog .

Where the blog website is located.

but It isn't working for some reason.

Any suggestions?

Luke404 · Answer 1 · 2010-09-10 07:45:53Z

up vote 1 down vote accepted

The DNS, as the name says, deals with Domain Names, not URLs. You can't put a path (like /blog) in a CNAME.

You should put an A record for blog.whatever.com that points to the IP address of your server, and configure an HTTP Virtual Host on the server.

answered Sep 10 '10 at 7:45

Luke404
1,133412

	Ok, I just created a Host(A) record in my DNS Manager. – Joseph Ghassan Sep 10 '10 at 7:54
	My blog is hosted under wwwroot/blog. – Joseph Ghassan Sep 10 '10 at 7:55
	how can I link now : blog.trimhold.com to www.trimhold.con/blog ? – Joseph Ghassan Sep 10 '10 at 7:56
	Ok, Worked perfectly thanks – Joseph Ghassan Sep 10 '10 at 9:14

feedback

1 Answer