In the Domain Name System (DNS) hierarchy, a subdomain is a domain that is part of a larger domain.[1]
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Can I use the character ñ in a sub-domain?
We are launching our website in Spanish and are probably going to call it
espanol.mydomain.com
Since the real spelling is español, ideally we would allow people to type español.mydomain.com.
Is ...
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Wildcard SSL certificate for second-level subdomain
I'd like to know if any certificates support a double wildcard like *.*.example.com? I've just been on the phone with my current SSL provider (register.com) and the girl there said they don't offer ...
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Create VHost & Forward subdomain to it
Gurus of So
I have a simple .htaccess file where I only redirect non www to www for my webapp. Now what I want to do is
Create a new vhost like http://subdomain.mydomain.tld
Create a redirect for ...
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How do I redirect subdomains to a different port on the same server?
I have some subdomains I want to redirect to specific ports on the same server.
Say I have
dev.mydomain.com
I want dev.mydomain.com to redirect to mydomain.com:8080 how do I do this with Apache ...
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Wildcard DNS and subdomains
Let'say that i've got the domain mydomain.com.
I want that when any visitor goes to
www.mydomain.com
xyz.mydomain.com
abc.mydomain.com
asd.mydomain.com
qwe.mydomain.com
etc...
the visitor will ...
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Is a wildcard DNS record bad practice?
I asked my hoster to add three subdomains all pointing to the IP of the A record. It seems he simply added a wildcard DNS record because any random subdomain resolves to my IP now. This is OK for me ...
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DNS: wildcard domains
If I have a wildcard domain, is it possible to list specific subdomains that override the wildcard one?
For example:
*.domain.com. 3600 IN A 1.2.3.4
foo.domain.com. 3600 IN A 9.9.9.9
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subdomain of a subdomain?
I am trying to create url like sub2.sub1.subdomain.domain.com. I am planning to use this to display different content.
my questions are...
1) Is it possible to create such multi level sub domains? - ...
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How many sub-domains can there be at most?
Is there a limit for number of subdomains like "*.domain.com"?
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Second Level Subdomain DNS Wildcard
I need help setting up a second level subdomain. I have set up wildcard subdomains in the past with success, but I am having trouble with the DNS entry for this one. I need to do something like
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Subdomains vs multiple domain names
I have the domain name for www.foo.co.uk.
I am looking to use it as a landing page that will allow people to go to 1 of 2 sections of my site (both having separate blogs).
So I have the idea I could ...
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How to create a Subdomain in IIS7?
In IIS7 I have a site: http://www.mydomain.com/mysite
How can I get the same site to appear as: http://mysite.mydomain.com ?
I already have the DNS set up and can ping it, I just do not know how to ...
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Redirect all subdomains to subfolders
I'd like to add a rule so that all subdomains get redirected to a subfolder. For example:
app1.example.com -> example.com/app1
app2.example.com -> example.com/app2
something.example.com -> ...
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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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Hosting wildcard domains such as *.mydomain.com on Windows Azure without using redirections
I have an ASP.NET MVC app which offers wildcard domains to my users to personalize their login urls.
I'd like to host this on Windows Azure. But is it possible to keep the wildcard domains?
I've ...
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How do you have one IP address and many websites?
How can I have it where I have one IP address that sits on the Internet but many web names? For example, when a hosting company has a shared IP but I get unlimited domain names (along with everyone ...
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Best practice for placing DNS records and subdomains
Say I have mydomain.com:
Is it better to use option A:
[A] mydomain.com 123.45.67.89
[A] www.mydomain.com 123.45.67.89
or option B:
[A] mydomain.com 123.45.67.89
[CNAME] ...
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How to make a directory in site root a subdomain?
I have a Ubuntu LAMP site hosted at vps.net.
I have a directory called john that is accessible via mysite.com/john I would like it instead to be accessed via john.mysite.com
My site root is /var/www ...
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Do I need child domains in AD?
I have a an organization having HQ(about 150 users) in one city and 16 branches (high schools, 300-400 users each) each in different city.
What I have to do is create a domain(s) in AD for corporate ...
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Subdomain on another host (another IP, another provider)
Let's say my main domain is domain.net and i'm using it on a Media Temple (gs) server.
I have my blog on the subdomain blog.domain.net
Now I want to host my blog on my new VPS from Linode.
So, I ...
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Dns - wildcard vs. cname subdomains
Alright I have to admit I'm confused with how DNS works. I've always just added things until they worked, and now it's time to learn how they work.
So one confusing thing to me is that there's sort ...
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How to set up a DNS to use a catch-all address?
This is not really a programming question, it's more about settings that I can alter visually.
I have bought a domain and am wondering how I can get it work in such a way that everything before the ...
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Subdomain redirect
When I enter some dummy subdomain like test.mysite.com I always get my site no matter that that subdomain does not exist, where do I tweak that in WHM so that if that subdomain does not exist, user ...
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Can you have a sub sub domain?
Can you have DNS records with sub sub domains?
E.g.: www.blog.domain_name.com?
What about a sub sub wild card domain? At the same time supporting *.domain_name.com?
E.g.: *.blog.domain_name.com?
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Is there a way to check DNS records to determine the creation date of a subdomain? e.g. blog.example.com
I need to determine when a subdomain was created. Is there a way to do that with DNS lookups?
For a given top level domain like example.com, can I find out when blog.example.com was created?
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Route www.<subdomain> to <subdomain>?
I have a domain that needs to redirect from www.subdomain.domain.net to subdomain.domain.net
I know this is possible, but how? It isn't automatic. What DNS records do I need to update?
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nginx: redirect subfolder to subdomain
I'm trying to redirect a subfolder to a subdomain in nginx. I want http://example.com/~meow/ to be redirected to http://meow.example.com/. I tried the following:
location ~ ^/\~meow/(.*)$ {
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Non-Wildcard SSL Certificate and Subdomains
I want to protect the login form of my blog application with an SSL certificate and I'd also like to have some subdomains set up for things like the Mint web stats package. Is this even possible using ...
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How to create this type of subdomain: example.test.domain.com
I've managed to find a rewrite for making subdomains (which I have a wildcard domain pointed to my server; *.domain.com.
If I go to test.domain.com, it works just fine which transverse to:
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How do I configure IIS 7 (discount asp.net) to point subdomains at application subdirectories?
I have an discount asp.net account, which uses IIS 7 and I want to configure subdomains to point at specific applications on the site.
For instance:
's1.site.com' would run the application at ...
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How to configure IIS wildcards for account subdomains (like Basecamp)?
In effect I'm working on a SaaS application where I want to give subscribers their own subdomain to access their information (in code I will be pulling the first part of the subdomain for use as their ...
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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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How to create a catch-all subdomain in IIS 7.5?
How can I create a catchall for any unspecified subdomains of website.com in IIS 7.5 on Windows Server 2008 RC2?
I have already configured a CNAME DNS entry for *.website.com pointing to ...
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Is it ok to not use 'www' in my website subdomain url?
We have a website that is a subdomain of our primary domain, such as site.domain.com. The official URL of the website is http://site.domain.com, but some people keep referring to it as ...
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How to create an SSL certificate for more than one subdomain?
I'm running a server "myserver.net", which has the subdomains "a.myserver.net" and "b.myserver.net".
When creating (self-signed) SSL certificates, I have to create one for every subdomain, containing ...
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IT merger - self-sufficient site with domain controller VS thin clients outpost with access to terminal server
SITUATION:
A larger company acquires a smaller one. IT infrastructure has to be merged. There are no immediate plans to change the current size or role of the smaller company - the offices and ...
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DNS Help with sub sub domain names
I am not sure I even did this right, but I am trying to setup some sub domains with email services. So I want to have an email address like something@sub.domain.com. My problem is getting put in ...
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How to configure *.subdomain.domain.tld in Windows 2003 - wildcards in DNS
I think the title says it all really, but to reiterate, I'd like to know how to configure Windows 2003 to allow a wildcard on a subdomain. So site1.sub.domain.tld and site2.sub.domain.tld should both ...
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ServerName not working in Apache2 and Ubuntu
Setting up a dev LAMP server and I wish to allow dynamic subdomains, aka ted.servername.com, bob.servername.com.
Here's my sites-active file
<VirtualHost *:80>
# Admin Email, Server Name, ...
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Wildcard DNS, VirtualHosts on apache2, 404 for unused subdomains
On an Apache2 server linked to by a DNS that includes a wildcard entry, e.g. *.example.com, subdomains that are not defined as ServerNames in any VirtualHosts point to the first defined VirtualHost, ...
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What is the recommended approach to add static subdomains to a website?
I would like to create a few static subdomains like:
mycategory.mydomain.com
in a rather small website and would like it to point to the folder:
mydomain.com/mycategory
without showing ...
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Nginx/Apache subdomain problem
I'm having some trouble setting up a subdomain for clients.lipsmack.co.uk. I've set up a DNS A record to point to my IP address, and I've created proxy and vhost information for nginx and apache, but ...
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Munin in a subdomain using Apache Virtual Host
I'm trying to install Munin in my server and configure the web interface to work in a subdomain. I've configured the subdomain stats.mysite.com and created the file ...
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share a domain name beween php and mono
I've got a problem : I've got a dedicated server where I use three different domain names and php. Now, I've got a new website that I developped with asp.net. I installed mono, mod_mono and transfered ...
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IIS 7.5 + AD DNS = no intranet subdomain names 4 u?
Alright, hopefully this is a simple one..
We have a new server on our domain CMOT2.ourcompany.local
I want to host a few IIS sites on it and refer to them as WIKI.CMOT2.ourcompany.local etc.
I set ...
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Apache mod-rewrite rule to change subdomain.domain.tld to domain.tld/subdomain
What would the rewrite rule be to change subdomain.domain.tld to domain.tld/subdomain?
Or should I look at a VirtualServer directive to take subdomain.domain.tld and serve it from a DocRoot that ...
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Strange behaviour when creating/deleting subdomains
This can be a DNS cache issue from my local machine, but I am not sure. This is what happens. I have a domain that does not use wildcard subdomains, so they have to be created.
Without creating the ...
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DNS, subdomain, and IPv6 — possible to add subdomain.example.com NS record to an IPv6 host?
example.com is listed with a registrar -- specifically, answerable.com.
I want to host a subdomain in-house, specifically home.example.com.
I am using an ipv6 gateway, specifically gogo6, to have a ...
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Setting up server and sub domain using Apache
I have a main domain www.example.com
I want to have a sub domain like this
www.pictures.example.com
I (think) have a choice of either:
using virtual servers to match the different addresses (i.e. ...
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Static subdomains (used as asset hosts) sometimes are slow or don't work
My setup:
Dedicated server,
Running my own DNS server, Apache 2,
A Ruby on Rails App running on Phusion Passenger 2.2.9,
using rail's dynamic asset host generator that fetches assets using these ...
