Creating subdomains with A records

Hi:

I have Apache 1.3.29 with apache. The mydomain.com is hosted with BIND DNS. The document root is:

/var/www/html/

Lets say I wanted to create a folder like:

/var/www/subdomains/phpMyAdmin/

How would I create:

phpmyadmin.mydomain.com

I've heard to just add an "A" record. I can do that, but how will I tell it to point to "/var/www/subdomains/phpMyAdmin", and NOT "/var/www/html/"? Thanks for your help!!

Ken Cooper

You add a virtual host for the subdomain in your apache config.

Hi:

I did that, and it still didn't work. Well, I'll try again, and post if it works. Thanks for your help!!

Ken Cooper

ok, this is weird. Everything works. If you go to my site:

http://www.coopercentral.org

It shows the Apache test page, but there IS an index.html page. On the error log, it says the error "Directory index forbidden by rule". That means that there's no index.* setup.

Here's my question. Basically apache is located in two different areas:

/usr/local/apache

and

/etc/httpd

Now my HTML stuff is in:

/var/www/html

But which config file do I edit?

/usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf

or

/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf?

That's what's messing me up. I still can't get the subdomains working. Thanks for your help!!

Ken Cooper

I don't know if your file system stores last accessed times, but if it does, then you should restart apache then check to see which file was accessed most recently. That's the file you should edit.

And make sure your subdomain vhosts are BEFORE (or above) your root domain vhosts.

What is your OS? You have installed Apache twice, most likely once during your OS install and again when you wanted to install your websever. Each flavor of Linux usually includes Apache and has it's own method of controlling Apache. I suggest you make a post in the Apache board, and include your OS and Apache version, since this isn't a DNS issue.