make a subdomain link to a directory

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Hi,

i have tried to find the solution but it doesn’t seem so easy …

i have www.mydomain.com
in the directory “public_html”
and i want to make demo.mydomain.com which links to the directory “public_html/demo”

how can i do that in Virtualmin’s configuration ?

thanks

2

oh it seems it has an obvious solution or it is really complicated ?
nobody can help me ?

thanks in advance

3

There isn’t a recommended way of doing that… of you’re interested in having multiple domain names, the would typically go into a separate directory structure.

-Eric

4

I understand, yes
but i was used to, sometimes, making a subdomain which only linked to a specific directory

for example on my site, with my old domain admin, i had only added what they call a Web Path in the Apache configuration to say that :
flickr.domain.com linked to /home/xxx/public_html/flickr

i will probably do it by code but i wanted to know if there was an option in Virtualmin or Apache config to do that

5

We discourage the use of this particular feature, as it seems to just cause confusion and headaches for folks using it – but for those who really really really want it, there is indeed an option in System Settings -> Virtualmin Config -> Advanced Options named “Allow creation of sub-domains”.

If you enable that, it should do what you’re after.

But you’d be amazed on how confused folks get when that they see that and “Sub-Servers” in the “Create Virtual Server” options :slight_smile:

But what you’d want in your case is to create a sub-domain.

-Eric

6

Hello Eric,

thanks for the explanation.
I think i won’t use this feature.
It’s better not to use features you don’t recommend …
Virtualmin is really easy to use and powerful, i don’t want to get bad habits using strange features :slight_smile:

Thanks