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new-webmaser
10-06-2001, 06:45 AM
Hello ...

one of my customers want to sell subdomains as domains (DNS) he want to use the subdomains to forward to any webhost ..!

anyway ... he want to rund subdomains with www. and I use WHM which not allow this.

i have a solution to set each subdomain as full account .. this welll make the subdomain work with www. but it will give the subdomain FTP, Email, CPanel, ...... which is not needed at all ..


so is there anything to run subdomains with www.
what about adding www.* to the main domains DNS Zone record ??

yellowed
10-06-2001, 11:06 AM
I've tried to find a solution for that limitation on these forums
before. No Cpanel host has come forward with a solution.
Doesn't seem that www.subdomain can be implemented with
Plesk hosts either.

It is curious that other hosting companies who do not use
Cpanel or Plesk, and can implement www.subdomain ability for
their clients, do not come forward with hosting offers.
We know that some redirection services offer this, so it can be
done.

I hope that some hosts will clear up the mystery for us !

Jm4n
10-06-2001, 11:30 AM
I hope that some hosts will clear up the mystery for us !
Speaking only for myself, it's difficult to offer advice to those using a control panel with regards to configuration issues. I myself always include both sub.domain.com and www.sub.domain.com.

It's a simple matter of:
- Adding both "sub.domain.com" and "www.sub.domain.com" in your DNS, pointing to the appropriate IP
- Making sure (assuming Apache) that "www.sub.domain.com" is listed as a ServerAlias so Apache will respond to the requests.

I don't know how you might implement this in your control panel, but if you can use the above information, I'm glad to have been of some help :)