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In the Domain Name System (DNS) hierarchy, a subdomain is a domain that is part of a larger domain.[1]

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DNS: Canonical Names, Sub-domains, and Aliases

Background Setup Info Domain: abc.ca.gov Web Server Name: web1 Server FQDN: web1.abc.ca.gov DNS Alias for FQDN: intranet Browser URL: http://intranet/ Question 1: Is it possible then to setup ...
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Forwarding requests in Apache if necessary based on subdomain

In Apache 2.2, is there a way to forward certain subdomains to another server (in another datacenter) based on a lookup table of subdomain/IP address mappings (provided in a file or database)? The ...
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apache mod_rewrite subdomain, domain and url arguments

I am trying to use mod_rewrite to capture a subdomain, domain, and the arguments passed with the url. I have multiple domains pointing to a single ip address, with both @ and * wildcard a-records, so ...
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Possible to have multiple IP addresses for a server that point to different doc roots?

Ok, so my set up is as follows: I own a domain, let's call it domain.com. I have an amazon AWS account with one micro-instance (free tier). domain.com and www.domain.com both point to a static IP ...
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DNS setup for a domain and its subdomain to point to different hosts

So here's what I have configured - I have a shared hosting account at dreamhost, and I've also just set up a VPS at intoVPS. The shared account is intended for mostly static sites and I'll be using ...
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Multiple Sub-domains with one IP address [closed]

I know that it is not possible to configure DNS so that different subdomains get pointed to the same IP, but with different ports. I.e.: alfa.example.com 10.10.10.1 :550 beta.example.com 10.10.10.1 ...
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Authentication with specific subdomains

Basically I'm trying to enable the authentication module when accessing to a specific part of a subdomain, which are dev.domain.com and pma.domain.com, they both must have the authentication module ...
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How to create a subdomain in Apache2?

So I have a main domaing pointing to my server (xx.xx.xx.xx). I tried to create a subdomain with the following virtualhost file. <VirtualHost myip:80> ServerName sub.mydomain ...
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Subdomain to remote server folder DNS

I'm running a site on an apache server named www.example.com which has sub.example.com subdomain. Also I have a vps, which is accessable through x.x.x.x IP adress. sub.example.com is redirected to ...
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Forward all Subdomains to another domain (with subdomain intact)

I have moved a lot of people off one of my servers. Each person had an account using subdomains so urn.example.com urn2.example.com. What I would like to do is set it up so ANY subdomain accessed on ...
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How to make a subdomain permanent redirect?

I have a new vps CentOS 5.3 with Webmin, BIND, Apache installed. I want install Shoucast 2 server on port 8000. Can i create subdomain (ex: radio.mystation.com) and redirect it to ...
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subdomain of a subdomain on Server 11.10

I have a server that hosts mydomain.com. Then I have a server that hosts subdomain1.mydomain.com. On the subdomain1.mydomain.com server, how do I make subdomains? For instance I want to create ...
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Setting up a subdomain which points to another IP (Apache2)

I'm using Apache, and I'm trying to set up a subdomain for a virtual host, which then points to a server on a different IP address. So the virtual host is www.example.com, I'd like to set up ...
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Use regular expression in definition of virtualhost

I have to define about 100 subdomain virtualhost entries in server config file . I want to know if there is any way to do it with regular expression to increase codes in apache config file?
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Common subdomain for several virtual domains in Apache2

I'm running a web server with Apache2 and several virtual domains. Also, there's a mail server for these domains, exposing a web interface. For each virtual domain example.com, I have the subdomain ...
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Apache Rewrite Mod

I am trying to achieve virtual subdomain as my hosting provider has set a limitation on the number of subdomains I can have! I already have a wildcard DNS entry so all subdomains are accepted and send ...
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Localhost subdomain set up on ubuntu not working

In my pc (running on Ubuntu) , I have configured apache and php. I wanted to create a subdomain 'mysite.localhost' on my localhost I have a folder /var/www/mysite Which I would like to access like ...
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How to get Postfix to send/forward/relay to a sub-domain located on another server?

I have a quick question. How do I setup postfix to send an email to another server (Exchange Server) when sending to an email address that has a sub-domain of our main server. For example, say our ...
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Subdomain not resolving to IP

I created a subdomain http://themes.ibrogram.com and it doesn't seem to work, however http://ibrogram.com/themes does work. I've had this issue for ages using an A record and can't seem to figure out ...
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apache subdomain configuration

I seem to be having a small problem with setting up a subdomain in apache under CentOS. I have the following: NameVirtualHost *:80 <VirtualHost *> ServerName www.domain.co.uk ServerAlias ...
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Removing WWW from Subdomain for Staging Server via httpd.conf

I am trying to set up a staging server to run as a sub-domain of my production server and I'm running into a small problem. I have my production server hosted on a RackSpace virtual machine. I ...
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Subdomains for MX using CNAMEs

Let's say I've got a wildcard subdomain CNAME for root domain: *.domain.com CNAME domain.com domain.com A 130.71.45.31 This works well for websites, e.g. subdomain.domain.com. Now let's say I have ...
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Apache redirect subdomain to a specific folder

I need to redirect all the traffic from http://subdomain.domain.com/ to http://subdomain.domain.com/folder/ With 'folder' being a specific folder, of course. I've tried this: RewriteCond ...
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Is this good practice for making subdomains

I'm trying to create subdomains with my web application, however, I'm not experienced in nginx that much, I've been trying to find a stable solution from SF, but unfortunately I can't find any good ...
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nginx phpmyadmin 404

I am trying to install phpmyadmin on my nginx web server. I installed phpmyadmin without a problem. I created subdomain for it. For security reasons I didnt call my subdomain "phpmyadmin" i used a ...
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How to set up the CNAME in DNS zone record to work with Unbounce

I'm trying to run split testing on some landing pages I "designed" with Unbounce, but it requires that I set the CNAME record for my domain/sub-domain and I'm having trouble figuring out what is the ...
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How to use VirtualHosts in apache2 for mobile subdomain?

Need some help to redirect to a mobile subdomain. Currently both m.domain.com and domain.com will go to var/www/html/mobile. Obviously I need domain.com to direct to var/www/html and m.domain.com to ...
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Possible A Record Conflict

I just inherited management of the domain names from another person who resigned from my company. I am new to this type of task. I want to map the new ip address I bought to the following example ...
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Is Downtime Needed after changing the Ip Address of A Subdomain?

I have a subdomain whose DNS A Record I would like to change. After doing this, do I have to wait for some time before the change will be reflected? If yes, during the downtime is it possible to put ...
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Nginx subdomain redirects to domain, what's wrong?

I've got a server with serveral domains under Nginx running fine (WordPress blogs). Now I want to setup a phplist server and locate it under one subdomain, but although I thought I configured the ...
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Pointing Sub domain of one website to sub folder of another website

I have a domain example.com pointing to Linux AWS. I also have demo.example.com which i need to point to /htdocs/c5 of example2.com on Windows Server running XAMPP. My Findings Used A record of ...
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Are username subdomains needed for white label cname applications?

I'm having a SaaS site developed and will be offering white label service with some memberships. During user registration I will be asking users to enter a 'username' which will be used for a ...
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Redirect subdomain virtual host subdomains to path

I used Apache's virtual host for a ton of subdomains for greptweet.com, where each twitter username is a subdomain, like <username>.greptweet.com. Problem is ... subdomains can't have ...
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How to set a subdomain as the default domain?

I have a domain (lets call it bar.com) and I want the default hostname to be foo.bar.com. So, bar.com would be redirected to foo.bar.com and foo.bar.com would correspond to the main httpdocs folder (I ...
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Diagnosing subdomain “server not found”: Where to start?

I'm having a strange problem. I'll be quick about the setup: DNS Following are A-records pointing to the same IP: www.domain.com domain.com login.domain.com dev.domain.com I have tried using ...
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Website integration: Frame, redirect or virtual domain?

I'm overwhelmed by the many choices one has in website design. I'm probalbly asking something really easy to set up, but since I don't have any experience, I'm looking for help. Current Setup I've ...
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configure nginx name.site.com to blah/name?

I would like all subdomains to be mapped to a particular folder and 404 if nothing exist. So if i have a wordpress install i would like nginx to see ANYTHING.mysite.com and attempt to host files from ...
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How to create a CNAME a DNS name at the level abc.xyz.mydomain.com (sub-sub-domain) if my DNS host only supports xyz.mydomain.com (sub-domain)?

I need to create the CNAME record: abc.xyz.mydomain.com = verify.azure.com but my DNS provider (www.freeparking.com) only allows me to create it at the sub-domain level (i.e. xyz.mydomain.com). I ...
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dns/mx records for sub domain

Currently we are using a DNS service (GoDaddy), an email service (GoDaddy), and a hosting service (Squarespace). I want to start a mailman mailing list on this domain, but want to use yet another ...
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Is it possible to use one wildcard subdomain for both Web and Incoming Email?

Is it possible to use one wildcard subdomain for both web and incoming email? So, for instance: random01.example.com => handled by web server user01@random01.example.com => handled by email server ...
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Default CNAME when DNS quering

I have a domain, with a number of CNAME records to www.mydomain.com mail.mydomain.com ftp.mydomain.com Now, what I would like to achieve is that if any other subdomain is queried or the domain ...
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Pointing subdmain to ther server

I need help with this. I have my own domain helloworld.com and dns server at IP 171.255.213.241. What I need to do is to point my subdomain (example: blog.helloworld.com) to other hosting provider ...
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Redirect www.example.com/folder to folder.example.com

I have a url that looks like this: www.example.com/folder. Now, I was wondering how I can tell Apache to redirect the url to folder.example.com
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nginx redirect to another domain not forgetting about the subdomains

this is rather a quick one: How do I redirect to another domain and still forward the subdomain? Example: http://foo.domainone.com/bar.php -> http://foo.domaintwo.com/bar.php Thanks in advance!
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How to redirect subdomain to alternative server with SSL support?

I'm looking to redirect https://sub.domain.com to https://sub.otherdomain.com without changing the user's address bar. Is this even technically possible? I can imagine some certificate issues? We ...
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DNS and Subdomains

We're switching the DNS over to XX's servers for our website. We have loads of subdomains and they have their own IP addresses. Will switching over our DNS affect our subdomains?
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Subdomain does not tail directory on nginx

I'm trying to make the subdomain work when accessing to dev.domain.com, it should tail to the /var/www/domain.com/www/dev where /var/www/domain.com/www/ is the root of domain.com. When I access to ...
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Setting up sub-domains with 123-reg.co.uk

Firstly I'm not sure if this was the right site to post this question, but it seemed more appropriate that using stack-overflow because its Web/DNS based. I'm having a bit of trouble setting up a ...
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How do you make a subdomain on a different port?

This is my vhosts.conf <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www" ServerName localhost </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/images" ServerName ...
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mod_vhsot_alias vs mod_vhost_hash_alias

I am running Ubuntu Maverick + Apache2.2 and I did some reading up on using mod_vhost_alias to serve/create subdomains on the fly. But, when I try installing it through apt, all I can find is ...

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