Topic: Using subdomains

[DanB35]

I've been through the server-manager, and I don't see a way to do this with stock SME 9.1, but I just want to be sure.  I'd like to set up my SME 9.1 server to use a subdomain of ibay.mydomain.tld, rather than needing to go to www.mydomain.tld/ibay.  It's easy enough, of course, to direct a given domain to a specified ibay, but I don't see a way to do this with a subdomain (of either the primary domain, or of any additional domain).

I do see http://wiki.contribs.org/Webapps-common, but frankly the note in the "skill level" box is a little scary.  Is that the way to go, or is there a better/safer way to accomplish this?

[ReetP]

As far as I know you go to server-manager, Domains and add your host

e.g.

If your domain is mydomain.com

Add this in the panel :

myhost.mydomain.com

Point it to an ibay and set DNS to resolve locally

So in your case add a 'domain' of

ibay.mydomain.tld

And point it to the ibay

B. Rgds
John

[DanB35]

Well, that was easy!  Not quite obvious, but certainly easy.  Yes, that worked fine, thanks!

Now to complicate it just a bit--what if the content isn't in an ibay?  I'm thinking of accessing the webmail from webmail.mydomain.tld instead of /webmail.

[guest22]

Then it's back to webapps-common

[guest22]

I do see http://wiki.contribs.org/Webapps-common, but frankly the note in the "skill level" box is a little scary.  Is that the way to go, or is there a better/safer way to accomplish this?

Actually it's not that scary, and indeed the skill level is a bit too high.


At the end, all the contrib does is adding a new db key for you required domain and expand templating magic. Removing the key and, again, expand templating magic, will set you back to default.

[DanB35]

I thought that "Significant risk of irreversible harm" was unlikely (since pretty much anything short of rm -rf / is reversible), but it does rather tend to dissuade someone from trying it...

[guest22]

Adjusted it.

[ReetP]

Adjusted it.