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Setting up so that a subdomain point to site

  • 26-05-2005 7:14pm
    #1
    stuey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 583 ✭✭✭


    Im about to register a domain with www.letshost.ie and get some webspace as well

    so lets say im registering www.stuey.com and im also allowed 20 sub domains

    www.stuey.com is going to point to another webiste that i have
    www.data.stuey.com is going to point to the webspace

    i also have a few other website (mainly registered with freewebs)

    is it possible for me to set up a subdoamin www.xxxx.stuey.com that will point to one of my other websites. i have been told that it is possible with some sort of php code but i want to make sure before i commit anything

    cheers


Comments

  • #2
    Kali
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,601 ✭✭✭Kali


    Excuse me for possibly being pedantic (and I'm sure someone will correct me).. but www.data.stuey.com isn't a sub-domain of stuey.com .. data.stuey.com would be... I don't see any need for the www there at all apart from confusing people.


  • #3
    stuey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 583 ✭✭✭stuey


    thanks for correcting that Kali, still any ideas if it is possible?


  • #4
    muckwarrior
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,104 ✭✭✭muckwarrior


    Well you could easily write a simple ASP/PHP/JSP page to redirect a user to wherever you want. Also some hosting providers will let you set up a redirect in your domain control panel.


  • #5
    steve-hosting36
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,161 ✭✭✭steve-hosting36


    Maybe this is really a pre-sales question for the host you are reviewing? If they dont know the answer then maybe you should consider your options :)


  • #6
    Snowbat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,065 ✭✭✭Snowbat


    A subdomain, just like a hostname, can only point to IP address(es), nothing else. You point your subdomain at the IP address of the server that will host your service. Your http server has the ability to do a 301/302 redirect to another site or to a specific page at a site.

    For the subdomains needing only http service, if your hosting provider is willing, one option is to point these subdomains at the IP address of your main http server and ask the administrator to set up virtual hosting for those subdomains with 301 redirects to the specific URLs you want.


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  • #7
    smorton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 154 ✭✭smorton


    put the following code on the page:

    <script>
    location="http://www.your-website.com&quot;
    </script>

    automatically relocates

    im not totally sure wat ur asking. am i anywhere near?


  • #8
    mneylon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,740 ✭✭✭mneylon


    Snowbat wrote:
    A subdomain, just like a hostname, can only point to IP address(es), nothing else.

    That's not entirely true.
    You could use a CNAME instead of an A
    But if you want to get it to point at a specific file you would have to use a redirect of some kind, probably a .htaccess or similar.

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