Re: [cobalt-users] Subdomains pointing to directories [was WAP / Archive Searching [was Anybody experienced problems with All Security 3.0.1-6682?]]

["Steven Werby" <steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Baker - Cobalt Lists <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Any ideas on the subdomain thing?

Couldn't find your post here, but I found this on Cobalt Developers:
> 2. I'd like to create subdomains of a site and use cnames to point to a
> folder of the site (has been done on another server) but the GUI rejects a /
> in the cname record, firstly where can I edit the records to do this, does
> anyone have any experience of it working, can I make it so the GUI will let
> me do it?

Just create DNS records as you normally would.  Create the site as you normally
would.  Edit httpd.conf and change:

DocumentRoot /home/sites/siteXY/web

to:

DocumentRoot /home/sites/siteXY/web/my_directory

Then restart Apache.

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Steven Werby {steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx}