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I set up a vanilla Ubuntu Server installation,

Other computers on the network can access its webserver with http://servername/

But when I try to access sub domains (e.g. http://something.servername/) it doesn't work.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

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servername is not a domain, it's a hostname (computername) so you can't have a subdomain of it. Your domain name would look something like mydomain.com.

If you have a domain like mydomain.com and servername is a part of it (that is, has a dns host record in the domain), then the first URL you have would be http://servername.mydomain.com

If you want to have a subdomain then it needs to first be created in dns. Let's call it subdomain.mydomain.com. At that point you then need a host record in the subdomain to have a valid URL. Something like http://servername.subdomain.mydomain.com.

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I don't think so. I just put something.servername into all 'hosts' files; a bit of a hack but it works. Thanks for the info. – aidan Oct 2 '09 at 16:03
Ok. Understand, though, that your machine will interpret servername as the domain name and something as a host name. You have not created a subdomain. This could mess with your apache config. – squillman Oct 2 '09 at 16:09
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