Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:39:48 +0000 From: Paul Macdonald <paul@ifdnrg.com> To: David Hughes <dghughes82@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtual Hosts & Subdomains Message-ID: <4F6388F4.1020503@ifdnrg.com> In-Reply-To: <4F638434.3090207@googlemail.com> References: <4F638434.3090207@googlemail.com>
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On 16/03/2012 18:19, David Hughes wrote: > Hi all, > > Forgive me if this is slightly off-topic, but I wonder if I could > trouble you for some advice about setting up website subdomains with > Apache. I currently have a website up and running on a jailed VPS; > I've been trying to set up subdomains so that one might navigate to a > certain area of the site by using a URL of the form blog.mywebsite.net > rather than mywebsite.net/blog. > > I've tried reading the official Apache documentation and a number of > tutorials that I've found online, but nothing I've tried has worked so > far. Do Virtual Hosts behave differently if they're within a jail? Or > do I need some sort of DNS registration for subdomains? I've been > trying to figure it out by myself, with little success so far - I'm > quite new to this. > If you post a sample virtualhost config people can comment and point out suggestions.. (there's a couple of ways to do it.) yes, you need subdomains to have DNS entries ( or hosts file entries at the least). Jails will be irrelevant, other than ensuring that the IP for the virtual host, and the jailed apache is correct/reachable. Paul. > Thanks for your help, > > David > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- ------------------------- Paul Macdonald IFDNRG Ltd Web and video hosting ------------------------- t: 0131 5548070 m: 07970339546<<PLEASE NOTE NEW MOBILE<< e: paul@ifdnrg.com w: http://www.ifdnrg.com ------------------------- IFDNRG 40 Maritime Street Edinburgh EH6 6SA -------------------------
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