xxx.domain.com pointed to www.domain.com ?

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darkus

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How would I go about making xyz.domain.com to show the contents of www.domain.com ? I know this can be done very easily with other domains, such as making www.domain-2.com to reflect the content of www.domain.com.

But can the same be done so that a subdomain reflects the same content as the www. domain ?

Thanks!!
 
I have no idea why agnivo007 recommended wildcard entries in DNS as I can't see how it would resolve any issue by itself.

agnivo007, can you give more detail?

How would I do it? I'd use a redirect inside the xyz.domain.com subdomain.

Jeff
 
I would think you would be able to do that under domain pointer section.
 
Unfortunatly with the build in DA tools, it will only let you point a domain prefecaed with www. to the original domain

for example

www.domain-2.com --> www.domain.com

will reflect domain.com's content when you try to goto www.domain-2.com

the default tools in DA won't let you set

subdomain.domain.com --> www.domain.com

to do something similar to refect domain.com's contents while the browser is on subdomain.domain.com

I was wondering if there is any simple workaround to this issue?
 
darkus said:
Unfortunatly with the build in DA tools, it will only let you point a domain prefecaed with www. to the original domain

for example

www.domain-2.com --> www.domain.com

will reflect domain.com's content when you try to goto www.domain-2.com

the default tools in DA won't let you set

subdomain.domain.com --> www.domain.com

to do something similar to refect domain.com's contents while the browser is on subdomain.domain.com

I was wondering if there is any simple workaround to this issue?
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You have to alter the dns setting for the sub-domain to point to the main somain
Or you can make a particular subdomain to point to the mail domain using ServerAlias

If you want to point all the sub-domains of the domain to the main domain use the wildcard *.
 
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Just following up this question to see if there are any solutions to this problem?

I have implimented the suggestions given and added my subdomain to my DNS entries and had it point to the same IP as my main site.

Now the domain will resolve but will only display the "Apache is functioning normally" message instead of displaying the content of my www.domain.com page.
 
I didn't find a solution to this... and it would be great to have one. We're not spamming or anything nefarious - just wanting to make site maintenance more efficient.
 
I have a resellers account and then a user account. Neither seem to allow me to set up an alias.

Is this functionality I need to ask my host to turn on for me?
 
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