I apologise for the extreme basic level of my questions in advance.

My situation: I'm looking to get familiarised with managing a dedicated server. The major issue at the moment that I am flummoxed by (my goodness there are many), is that of subdomains.

The site I desire to setup (I promise it's not a WebHosting one ;) ) would have www.fluff.com as the main page (I use that name simply for example here). But I would also like to have subdomain names along the lines of <subdomain>.fluff.com

I have been reading the apache guide ( http://httpd.apache.org/docs/vhosts/name-based.html ) and trying to pickup what I can on the requirements.

My first query is: Do you need an IP address for each subdomain?

I have kind of presumed not, but I 100% don't know either way.

In looking at the above Apache tutorial I have sort of put together some 'code' for making a subdomain, or so I think (hah! :) ), please be gentle in telling me how cackhanded I am at this :p (I seek to set up the name bob.fluff.com in this example)

<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot /www/bob
ServerName www.bob.fluff.com
ServerAlias *.bob.fluff.com
...
</VirtualHost>

I get the feeling it's horribly wrong but nevermind.

I was also wondering if/how you setup your email addresses so that they can be labelled as <name>@<subdomain>.<domain>.com .

Penultimately, if anyone does have links, I would appreciate it. I promise I have been doing google searches, as well as reading more threads on this forum than I care to mention :) [it's very 'needle in haystack' though I've found]

Lastly:

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NameVirtualHost *

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName www.domain.tld
DocumentRoot /www/domain
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName www.otherdomain.tld
DocumentRoot /www/otherdomain
</VirtualHost>


If you used that, for example, on www.fluff.com and www.jello.com, both those names would point to the same IP (?), but if entered would bring up different web sites?

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I hope I didn't just lower an already low expectation of newbies with these questions, and thank everyone who offers constructive advice :)

My first query is: Do you need an IP address for each subdomain?


No

In fact, you can even use multiple domains on 1 IP.

in file: httpd.conf
NameVirtualHost 100.100.100.100

<VirtualHost 100.100.100.100>
ServerAdmin webmaster@fluff.com
DocumentRoot /www/docs/fluff.com/public_html
ServerName www.fluff.com
ErrorLog logs/fluff.com-error_log
CustomLog logs/fluff.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 100.100.100.100>
ServerAdmin webmaster@fluff2.com
DocumentRoot /www/docs/fluff2.com/public_html
ServerName www.fluff2.com
ErrorLog logs/fluff2.com-error_log
CustomLog logs/fluff2.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

ahh. Thank you very much Aragon, that was exactly the kind of response I sought. Learning by example is definitely the way! :)

It also raises some interesting possibilities for me. Thanks again! :D

Originally posted by aragon

No

In fact, you can even use multiple domains on 1 IP.



If thats so? why doesn't my host allow me to host 2 domains on one virtual account?

Or is it the word virtual that sets it off?

There is no technical limit. The real reason is that your account only comes with a limited amount of domains you can host. If you upgrade to a higher package, you can probably add more domains.

Peter

Originally posted by Studio64


If thats so? why doesn't my host allow me to host 2 domains on one virtual account?

Or is it the word virtual that sets it off?

A number of reasons:

1.) Their control panel might not support it
2.) They just want to make more money by making you either upgrade to a higher package, sign up for another account, or pay to have the other domain setup on your account.
3.) They don't know how to do it :rolleyes: :D
4.) They just dont want to!!! :cartman: