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Managing subdomains on a Windows Web Hosting package
A subdomain is a subdivision of a
domain name. While domain names need to be Registered with a Registrar,
subdomains are not and an unlimited number of subdomains can be created. For example,
a subdomain news.yourdomain.com can be created on the domain name yourdomain.com.
AW GRUP allows you
to create unlimited subdomains with your Windows Web Hosting package. When a visitor reaches http://<subdomain>.yourdomain.com, he is served the content from
http://yourdomain.com/subdomain/. Let's discuss this with a
few examples:
- If someone types http://news.yourdomain.com
in the browser, then our web server will try to fetch the content from
http://yourdomain.com/news/.
So you need to ensure that you have created a folder called news
within your website and
have an index file (within this folder).
- If someone types http://news.yourdomain.com/asia/
in the browser, then our web server will try to fetch the content from
http://yourdomain.com/news/asia/.
So you need to ensure that you have created a folder called news
within your website and
within that folder, a sub-folder called asia with an index file (within
asia
folder).
IMPORTANTIf someone typed http://news.yourdomain.com/asia (without the trailing forward
slash), he would receive a Page not found error.
- If someone types http://news.yourdomain.com/weather-report.jpg in the browser,
then our web server will try to fetch the content from
http://yourdomain.com/news/weather-report.jpg.
So you need to ensure that you have created a folder called news and
have weather-report.jpg (within this folder).
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If someone types http://asia.news.yourdomain.com in
the browser, then our web server will try to fetch the content from
http://yourdomain.com/news/asia/. Similarly, http://india.asia.news.yourdomain.com
will fetch content from http://yourdomain.com/news/asia/india.
Adding a Subdomain
- Login to your
Control Panel, search for the domain name for which you have purchased this
hosting package and proceed to the Order Details view.
Click here to
read how >>
- Click on Manage Web Hosting Service in
the lower toolbar.
- In the Website Management interface pop-up
that follows, go to Manage Website -> Subdomain Manager -> Add
Subdomain.
- Here, provide the Subdomain Name and choose the Parent Domain
Name from the drop-down menu.
- Click on Submit.
IMPORTANT
- If you are using our Managed DNS Service (included for free with
your Web Hosting package), then
we have already created the appropriate Star Record to allow subdomains on your
Web Hosting package to begin working, once you modify the Name Servers of your
domain name to ours.
Click here to find information about which
Name Servers to use for activating your subdomain hosting >>
If you are not planning to use our Managed DNS
Service,
then you need to add a Star Record on your own Name Servers, to allow subdomains on your Web Hosting package
to begin working.
Click here to find
information about what DNS Records to add on your own Name Servers for activating
your sub-domain hosting >>
- If you have created domain alias(es) for your
Web Hosting package and want subdomains of each aliased domain name to also point just like
your hosted domain name, you need to follow the steps below -
- Create subdomains on each aliased domain name referring to the above
process. Here, you need to select the aliased domain name from the Parent Domain Name drop-down menu
in step 4.
- Create a Star DNS Record for each aliased
domain name, to point to your hosted domain name.
Example:
Suppose you have a
Windows Web Hosting package for yourdomain.com and
also a subdomain news.yourdomain.com. Then say, you decide
to set an alias for this package as yourotherdomain.com. To accomplish this, all
you need to do is create an Address Record (DNS) for yourotherdomain.com to point to the IP
Address of yourdomain.com -
yourotherdomain.com IN A 86400 1.1.1.1
(assuming that this is the IP Address of yourdomain.com)
But say you want news.yourotherdomain.com to
function as well. Then you would instead need to create a Star Address Record
(DNS) for yourotherdomain.com -
*.yourotherdomain.com IN A 86400 1.1.1.1
(assuming that this is the IP Address of yourdomain.com)
The Managed DNS Service for yourotherdomain.com
could either be purchased through AW GRUP or with your current DNS
Service Provider.
Reference:
Click here to know what a
Domain Alias is >>
Click here to know how to add Domain Aliases to
your Web Hosting package >>
Click here to know the IP Address of your
Web Hosting package where your Aliased Domain Name needs to point >>
- On AW GRUP Windows Web Hosting
packages, subdomains are supported only upto the third level. For
example, you can create subdomains such as a.yourdomain.com,
b.a.yourdomain.com as well as c.b.a.yourdomain.com. However, a
subdomain as d.c.b.a.yourdomain.com is not allowed.
- The .NET Framework version used for
the website associated with the main domain name and the subdomain
need to be the same. For example, if the .NET Framework version for
the main website is 1.1, the subdomain also needs to have the same
version for it to be functional.
Modifying a Subdomain
- Perform steps
1-2 mentioned in the above (Adding a Subdomain) process.
- In the Website
Management interface pop-up that follows, go to
Manage Website -> Subdomain Manager -> List Subdomains.
- Click on the
Subdomain Name link corresponding to the subdomain you wish to modify.
- Make the desired
modifications and click on Submit to save the changes.
Deleting a Subdomain
- Perform steps
1-2 mentioned in the Adding a Subdomain process above.
-
In the Website
Management interface pop-up that follows, go to
Manage Website -> Subdomain Manager -> List Subdomains.
- Select the
checkbox adjacent to one or more subdomains, which you wish to disable.
- Click on Delete
button and confirm the deletion by clicking on OK.
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