How to make a subdomain record point to a subfolder of my website “godaddy domain manager”?

Question

I have a dedicated server on a webhosting company "not godaddy", and I manage my domains through godaddy.
I want to add a new subdomain and want this domain to point to a certain folder in my website.
I tried to add a new record : mysubdomain -> www.mywebsite.com/subfolder but godaddy appeared a message that this is not a right formate.
How to do this?

Answer 1

In website hosting context, DNS only maps domain names to server addresses with A (or AAAA) records. Basically that is like telling the system "I want this domain to be hosted by that hoster.".

Everything beyond this is done by your hoster. When you open domain.com or sub.domain.com in a browser, the connection can be done to the same server, but different content will be presented, as the webserver can distinguish between these two cases.

Without further information about your hoster this question cannot be answered.