Hello,

I have some questions about Alabanza sub-domain support:

1) Does Alabanza support sub-domain? I have talked to Alabanza sales and they told me Alabanza dont recommend their clients to do that! Why?

2)Is it very difficult to setup sub-domain for Alabanza server?

3) I also see some Alabanza based web hosting company offer something called "Internal Sub-Domain (using your sites resources)". What is the different between internal sub-domain and the normal sub-domain?

Thanks and Regards,
Ray

Alabanza does not support virtual subdomains, or subdomains that do not use an IP address (what you call "internal subdomain") because it can't be setup through the admin panel without using an IP address.

You can setup a non-IP based subdomain, but this would require some technical knowledge on your part of Apache, specifically the httpd configuration file.

You can setup a subdomain through the DSM or the order form as long as it uses its own IP address- this way, it is setup as a new account, and does not use the resources of any other account. Alabanza does support these types of subdomains.

However, if you want to manually make changes to the httpd.conf file (which is probably why Alabanza recommends against it- there is the possibility that you will mess up the server, and also it requires manual work, so the automated adding of subdomains that use a whole account up is more time-efficient) and setup a non-IP based subdomain, Alabanza will not support it.

Brian

[Edited by Brian Farkas on 09-05-2000 at 12:45 AM]

I am not sure if Alabanza would give you such access but wouldn't an extra A name in DNS solve the problem?

If you add the following A name:
*.domainname.com A 209.15.12.4

Every subdomain will be redirected to the IP 209.15.12.4. So also test.domainname.com. Using a simple .htaccess you can easily redirect the traffic to the right sub-directory.

Would this work? Do people with an Alabanza server have access to add such A name to DNS?

Please respond because I think this is a very bad limitation (not supporting sub-domains).

Regards,

Dreas van Donselaar
ABC Web
The Netherlands

Alabanza based hosts do get root access. You can screw the server up all you want, just don't expect Alabanza to fix it for free :)

That said, you can indeed add 3rd level domains, as was posted above. The DSM (Domain System Manager) will not automatically create IPless ones pointing to a subdirectory, but you can do it yourself. Just don't forget to UNdo it before you delete the account later with the DSM, if you do forget then it will prevent the httpd from restarting (no web server). As was stated, creating these accounts is not supported and you do so at your own risk, so make sure you understand it before you do it.