Setting up a subdomains directory to have a different directory?
I know it's simple to set up a subdomain to a directory, eg boards.xxxxx.com go to public_html/boards, but what I'm wondering it if it's possible for you to set up a directory in a subdomain to different directory.
Sort of confusing explanation, but for example, test.xxxxxxxxxx.com/whatever actually redirects to public_html/different-folder
I hope someone can understand what I'm trying to get across, I know I didn't do the best job explaining it
Thanks in advance
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 11:40 — 23rd October 2006.
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Using Apache on *nix? Let's say you have test.example.com set up as a virtual host with public_html/test as its document root.
The simplest way I can think of is to create a symbolic link in the filesystem called public_html/test/whatever pointing to ../different-folder. If you have shell access you can do it with ln -s ../different-folder whatever while in public_html/test.
Another way is to use Alias and Directory in your VirtualHost config for test.example.com. Add to it something like:
<VirtualHost ...>...
Alias "/whatever" "/path/to/public_html/different-folder"
<Directory "/path/to/public_html/different-folder">
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
...
</VirtualHost>
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