How can I point a subdomain to a specific folder?
We have created an application to run on our server but which interfaces with a web application on another organization's server.
We got the the other organization to create a subdomain which point to our server's IP address.
(by the way, if you typed in our server's IP address, you''ll land on a default Apache/centOS page).
They pointed their subdomain to our server's IP address and now if a user goes to the subdomain, xyz.mydomain3.com, you'll be looking at our default Apache/CentOS page.
On our Linode server, the destination/where we have built the web application which the subdomain should be pointing to is mydomain2.com.
How can we point the subdomain, xyz (in xyz.mydomain3.com) to mydomain2.com?
Here's what our Linode DNS manager looks like:
DNS Manager » xyz.mydomain3.com
SOA Record
Primary DNS Email Default TTL Refresh Rate Retry Rate Expire Time Options
ns1.linode.com myemail@gmail.com Default Default Default Default Settings
NS Records
Name Server Subdomain TTL Options
ns1.linode.com xyz.mydomain3.com Default Edit | Remove
ns2.linode.com xyz.mydomain3.com Default Edit | Remove
ns3.linode.com xyz.mydomain3.com Default Edit | Remove
ns4.linode.com xyz.mydomain3.com Default Edit | Remove
ns5.linode.com xyz.mydomain3.com Default Edit | Remove
Add a new NS record
MX Records
Mail Server Preference Subdomain TTL Options
mail.xyz.mydomain3.com 10 Default Edit | Remove
Add a new MX record
A/AAAA Records
Hostname IP Address TTL Options
123.45.68.90 Default Edit | Remove
mail 123.45.68.90 Default Edit | Remove
www 123.45.68.90 Default Edit | Remove
Add a new A record
CNAME Records
Hostname Aliases to TTL Options
Add a new CNAME record
TXT Records
Name Value TTL Options
Add a new TXT record
SRV Records
Service Domain Priority Weight Port Target TTL Options
Add a new SRV record
NOTE: Changes made to a master zone will take effect in our nameservers every quarter hour.
We would appreciate any helpful response.
Thanks.
2 Replies
ServerAlias xyz.mydomain3.com
If you wished, you could instead use HTTP redirection (so that all requests for xyz.mydomain3.com get redirected to mydomain2.com) by setting up another VirtualHost just for xyz.mydomain3.com and using mod_rewrite.
Worked just fine.