domain pointing to one section

subdomain, domain name, folder

[pscfamily1]

Here's a naive and yet, I think, complicated question.

I'm trying to get a domain name I just bought to point to one section of our Web site. For example, I'm trying to get www.newproject.com to point to www.existingsite.com/newproject.

To make matters worse, I'd like to use a subdomain to point to that /newproject folder, so www.newproject.com ideally would point to newproject.existingsite.com.

Am I just being silly, or is there a relatively non-complicated way to do this?

Thanks.

[DaveAtIFG]

As to being silly, I'm not gonna touch that question! :) Welcome to WebmasterWorld, pscfamily1!

As to "a relatively non-complicated way to do this" that depends... Is your site hosted or do you operate your own server? Apache, IIS, or what?

It seems to me there are two aspects of the problem:
1. Setting up your subdomian needs to be handled on your server, that's probably the first issue to address.
2. Setting DNS records for www.newproject.com to point to the subdomain is the second issue. I think this is simply a matter of adding the subdomain's info to your current nameserver.