Yet another subdomain q

[section31]

uh, can u make a subdomain of another subdomain. Cpanel does allow it, but i can't get it to work. Normally when i create a normal subdomain it creates a folder that corresponds to that subdomain and inside is a .htaccess file which redirects to whatever. However, in this case, there is no folder being created. I even created a folder manually and still no luck. Any suggestions?

[KevinW]

What's the goal?

 

I'm just curious -- trying to figure out what you would end up with for a URL.

 

If your URL is www.mysite.com, and you create a subdomain called 'mail', then the URL is mail.mysite.com .

 

So, if you try to create a subdomain of 'work' within your mail subdomain, do you end up with work.mail.mysite.com or mail.work.mysite.com ?

 

And since one of the goals (IMO) with subdomains is to make URLs easier, not harder --- I'd question the effort required.

 

Mind you, I'm not saying you're right ore wrong - just curious!

:-)

kw

[section31]

hm...I'm not sure what you are asking. my goal is to create this stats.subdomain.domain.com to point to domain/subdomain/stats/, and as I stated earlier, this isn't working. So my question is, am I doing something wrong or is this not possible?

[TCH-JimE]

I've never come accross yet a firstname.secondname.thirdname.com so i would hazard a guess to say no, although I can't think of a good techincal reason for this other then subdomains all seem to sit on the WWW folder.

 

Therefore, it might be something to do with this

 

Jim

[section31]

Yup, since I've gotten no reply to my question. I've come to the conclusion that its not possible

[Lianna]

Whoops. Hang on let me go do some testing......Off to the lab I go.

 

Lianna

[Lianna]

level3.test.stoverdatasystems.com is currently being redirected to Error: while opening /home/lstover/public_html/level3.test/.htaccess http://stoverdatasystems.com/test/level3/index.htm

 

 

I see what it's trying to do. Do you?

 

BRB

Lianna

 

EDIT - I'm back. Did you figure it out? See that by creating a thirdlevel domain (sub.sub.dom.com), cpanel thinks that the third and second should be combined into a single name for a second level domain.

 

That's lear as mud, but here:

I make 2nd level: test.stoverdatasystems.com and then apply no redirection, because I want it to use the folder that it creates (public_html/test/).

Then, I create 3rd level: level3.test.stoverdatasystems.com and two things happen:

1. When it create the 3rd level domain, it created a folder in public_html, not in its 2nd level, public_html/test/

2. When I try to redirect it to a folder that I manually created in public_html/test/, it bombs stating that there is an error trying to access the file "/public_html/level3.test/.htaccess " and proceeds to try to combine the level3.test name as a single entity. Of course the folder public_html/level3.test/ does not exist, so it will bomb.

 

Does that give you any ideas?

 

I imagine that cPanel is not properly handling the 3rd level domain. The concept is possible and used quite often (especially in gov organizations - go check out their email addresses like soso@city.state.us.gov which is a 3rd level domain).

 

Anyway. Yep It can be worked but I think not giving you quite the result that you were hoping for.

Lianna

[elusive]

Help my second domain is not working. When I type in the URL to go to the site,it goes really slow and never connects. Please help.....

 

http://foreverkiefer/elusive-dreams.net

Thanks................

[Lianna]

Elusive,

 

Sorry, but your link makes no sense.

http://foreverkiefer/elusive-dreams.net

 

I think it should be: http://foreverkiefer.elusive-dreams.net instead.

Yes, it is painfully slow trying to connect.

 

If I go to http://elusive-dreams.net, the page pops fairly quick. But when I go to http://elusive-dreams.net/foreverkiefer, again with the painfully slow stuff.

 

So some things to check:

1. Is the subdomain created (foreverkiefer.elusive-dreams.net)

2. From cPanel File Manager, look in public_html to verify the existence of a folder called foreverkiefer.

3. From cPanel > Manage Subdomains, have you setup a redirect for the subdomain and if so to where? Should not be necessary to set up a redirect if it is going to public_html/foreverkiefer

4. What kind of page is in the foreverkiefer directory? Make a simple index.html file and place it there to test. If you have a php page or some such, there's a good chance that the code is causing the loss, not the subdomain setup.

 

In other words, I need more information than you've given me here to try to troubleshoot this problem. Looks like you have some kind of loop going on and it can't find a place to land.

 

Lianna

[section31]

Thanks for the reply lianna... I don't know what I was thinking..I didn't notice it was putting a folder on the public_html because i had a folder with the same name already in that directory...Thanks for the help anyway..

 

D

[Lianna]

 

(Does anybody else think that's the ugliest 'winkie' face in the world?)

 

I like that better.

 

Lianna

[elusive]

I'm sorry about that I meant to type in http:foreverkiefer.elusive-dreams.net

The subdomain was created just like that.I also have an index.html in public_html/foreverkiefer

 

I have no clue what a php page is? Sorry.....I'm kinda new at all this. I just don't understand why that one doesn't work.

Thanks for you help

[Head Guru]

The problem is that you appear to have created a folder called /foreverkiefer and then created the sub domain. This can be told by reviewing the creation date/time stamps.

 

Move your content out of the folder, delete the folder. Then pop into cpanel and delete the sub-domain. Then re-create the subdomain foreverkiefer. At that point you can move your contents back into the newly created folder.

 

Allow time for DNS to pop and you should be working.

 

Thanks

[elusive]

Thank you so much I did it!!

Hopefully it;ll work