Subdomains completely seperate from Subdirectory? Possible??

[Andrax]

One of very few pet peeves of mine about DA is the way SubDomains are handled.

The reason that I don't like them is that when you create a subdomain id DA, its both a subdomain and a subdirectory. Say I make a forums subdomain. That url is http://forums.mydomain.com

Well, people can get to the same location if they go to http://www.mydomain.com/forums

It's not a fatal issue or anything, its just one of those things that bugs me for whatever reason. So I thought I would post and see if anyone else felt the same way, and find out if its possible or planned to make a SubDomain JUST a Subdomain instead of both SubDomain and SubDirectory.

As a point of refrence, as a former Ensim user, SubDomains were created via FTP, and a user would simply create a folder in their public_html directory named subdomain.domain.com & from that moment on, that subdomain was ready to go. Going to http://www.domain.com/subdomain doesn't work because the subdomain is ONLY a subdomain.

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

Just change the template

cd /usr/local/directadmin/data/templates
cp virtual_host*sub.conf custom
cd custom
#edit the 2 files to change the paths that are used.

John

 

[Kippewit]

Sorry to bring up a very old post, but I'm having the same question as the TS. I opened the virtual_host_sub.conf file, but what do I need to change in the file?

 

[ditto]

It's not a fatal issue or anything, its just one of those things that bugs me for whatever reason. So I thought I would post and see if anyone else felt the same way, and find out if its possible or planned to make a SubDomain JUST a Subdomain instead of both SubDomain and SubDirectory.

I would like the same thing, so that the subdomain is not created inside public_html for the top level domain, but instead is created outside of public_html, just like regular domains. When subdomains is created inside public_html for the existing domain, it can cause trouble if there is a .htaccess file in public_html for the regular domain, which then is inherited to the subdomain (because it is in a subdirectory), this can sometimes be a problem.

The best would be if subdomains was created in this path: /home/USER/subdomains/sub.domain.com/ - however if DirectAdmin add this change in the future, it is needed to make it possible for us to convert existing subdomains to the new path.

 

[floyd]

The simplest thing to do by far is to add the sub domain as a regular domain.

 

[ditto]

The simplest thing to do by far is to add the sub domain as a regular domain.

We offer webhotel on shared hosting, and limit the packages to 50 domains. However we offer 250 subdomains. Therfor it is better for the customer to add a real subdomain, so that the customer is not forced to use one of the 50 domains for a subdomain.