Creating sub domain

Please help

[Night_Hawk]

I need to creat asub domain to be accessable in the folowing format
[subdomain.mydomain.com...]

where the directory should be in regard to wwwroot on Win2000. Please help.

[Night_Hawk]

This forum must be slow - Anybody out there?

[jdMorgan]

Night_Hawk,

Typically a bit slow on weekend-nights...

Hopefully, someone with some Windows 2000 Server experience will come along and be able to point you in the right direction or tell you where to find some documentation.

Jim

[txbakers]

** bump **

[andreasfriedrich]

While I have no experience with Windows 2000 server a search on Google returned this how-to: Step-by-Step: Adding a Subdomain using Host Headers in Windows 2000 Server/Advanced Server [dslwebserver.com]

Hope that gives you some pointers.

Andreas

[txbakers]

Thanks Andreas. I didn't think it was that easy!

I'm still not sure what the CNAME zone file entry is used for. I thought you used the CNAME with subdomains, but I see now that it isn't so.

Do you know what the CNAME is for?

[andreasfriedrich]

Have a look at Oversimplified DNS - CNAME records [rscott.org]

In short CNAME lets you specify lots of alias names for the true/canonical name of a computer.

aaron.domain.tld CNAME server.domain.tld

nick.domain.tld CNAME server.domain.tld

alias.domain2.tld CNAME server.domain.tld

specify that the canonical name for

aaron.domain.tld

,

nick.domain.tld

,

alias.domain2.tld

is

server.domain.tld

. Specifying that some name is simply an alias for another real name prevents you from adding any other records (MX, A, etc) for that alias. It is simply an alias after all so the records for the true/canonical name will apply.

Usually one could use an A record to specify an IP address for

aaron.domain.tld

. But using CNAME gives you an additional abstraction layer. If all alias names are specified using CNAME records then you will only have to change one record when the IP of

servername.domain.tld

changes. If you had used an A record then you would need to change the IP address of

aaron.domain.tld

as well to point to the new IP address of

servername.domain.tld

.

Andreas

[andreasfriedrich]

I thought you used the CNAME with subdomains, but I see now that it isn't so.

You can do so when the subdomains should be handled by the same maschine as the main domain. The same could be achieved by using the same IP address in A records for each subdomain.

If you want to use seperate IP addresses for subdomains then you would need to use A records for each subdomain.

Specifying subdomains is but one use for CNAME records. Among a lot of other uses CNAME records may be used to specify subdomains.

[Night_Hawk]

Thank you all for your replies,

I finally got a hold of one of the tech support and he made the subdomain point to the main domain to be able to access the pages on the wwwroot with the subdomain

So i think he did not create the subdomain after all. so if you type [subdomain.maindomain.com...]
or [maindomain.com...] you will be taken to the same page but the first is secured and the javascript for the ssl validate and the second one is not secured.

I hope this setup is not going to cause any problems in the future.

Thank you all very much.

AJ