Trying to map a folder to a sub-domain - Apache config issue
I would greatly appreciate it if someone could help point out what I might have done wrong in trying to map a folder on our server i.e mywebsite.com/abc to a similarly named subdomain i.e abc.mywebsite.com.
Our Linux is CentOS 6.4 on a VPS hosted by Linode
..and here's what the virtual hosts section of Apache config file looks like:
<virtualhost 12.34.56.78:80="">ServerAdmin webmaster@mywebsite.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/mywebsite.com/httpdocs/
ServerName mywebsite.com
ServerAlias http://www.mywebsite.com
<directory var="" www="" vhosts="" mywebsite.com="" httpdocs="">AllowOverride all</directory>
Alias /webmail "/var/www/html/webmail/"
Alias /postfixadmin "/var/www/html/postfixadmin"
ErrorLog logs/mywebsite.com-error_log
CustomLog logs/mywebsite.com-access_log common</virtualhost>
<virtualhost 12.34.56.78:443="">ServerAdmin webmaster@mywebsite.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/mywebsite.com/httpdocs/
ServerName mywebsite.com
ServerAlias http://www.mywebsite.com
<directory var="" www="" vhosts="" mywebsite.com="" httpdocs="">AllowOverride all</directory>
Alias /webmail "/var/www/html/webmail/"
Alias /postfixadmin "/var/www/html/postfixadmin"
ErrorLog logs/mywebsite.com-error_log
CustomLog logs/mywebsite.com-access_log common
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/mywebsite.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/mywebsite.key
SSLCACertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/ssl123.crt</virtualhost>
<virtualhost 12.34.56.78:443="">ServerAdmin webmaster@mywebsite.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/mywebsite.com/httpdocs/
ServerName abc.mywebsite.com
ServerAlias abc.mywebsite.com
<directory var="" www="" vhosts="" mywebsite.com="" httpdocs="" abc="">AllowOverride all</directory>
Alias /webmail "/var/www/html/webmail/"
Alias /postfixadmin "/var/www/html/postfixadmin"
ErrorLog logs/mywebsite.com.com-error_log
CustomLog logs/mywebsite.com-access_log common
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/mywebsite.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/mywebsite.key
SSLCACertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/ssl123.crt</virtualhost>
(I copied the 2nd section of the virtual host section of our Apache config to form the 3rd section and made modifications to it to work with abc.mywebsite.com).
The site resolves, but abc.mywebsite.com its resolving to mywebsite.com.
I'm now thinking that there must be an issue with the Apache config file..
Can anyone help spot it?
Many thanks.
3 Replies
Thanks for your response.
I have changed document root to
Code:
/var/www/vhosts/mywebsite.com/httpdocs/abc
and/or
Code:
/var/www/vhosts/mywebsite.com/httpdocs/abc/
and restarted the server a number of times.
but abc.mywebsite.com still resolves to mywebsite.com
Could there be other factors that could be responsible for it not resolving to the subdmain/folder?
e.g my DNS entries for creating this subdomain. Here's what my DNS entries look like:
DNS Manager » abc.mywebsite.coom
SOA Record
Primary DNS Email Default TTL Refresh Rate Retry Rate Expire Time Options
ns1.linode.com me@myemail.com Default Default Default Default Settings
NS Records
Name Server Subdomain TTL Options
ns1.linode.com abc.mywebsite.com Default Edit | Remove
ns2.linode.com abc.mywebsite.com Default Edit | Remove
ns3.linode.com abc.mywebsite.com Default Edit | Remove
ns4.linode.com abc.mywebsite.com Default Edit | Remove
ns5.linode.com abc.mywebsite.com Default Edit | Remove
Add a new NS record
MX Records
Mail Server Preference Subdomain TTL Options
mail.mywebsite.com 10 Default Edit | Remove
Add a new MX record
A/AAAA Records
Hostname IP Address TTL Options
12.34.56.78 Default Edit | Remove
mail 12.34.56.79 Default Edit | Remove
Add a new A record
CNAME Records
Hostname Aliases to TTL Options
www abc.mywebsite.com Default Edit | Remove
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
Are you able to spot anything I might have entered wrongly?
Thanks.
