Subdomains and DNS

Hi, I just started a few time ago to work with Apache and I found this
tool a great way to keep my website without (lots of) limitations.

My site hosts music and I would like to set subdomains for each
language, i.e. english.mydomain.com which goes to
www.mydomain.com/english

The configuration I have typed in apache for this, it's almost the same
configuration I've found almost everywhere, which is the following:

Listen 80

ServerName localhost:80

<VirtualHost *>
ServerAlias www.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot "/www"
ServerName www.mydomain.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost english.mydomain.com>
DocumentRoot "/www/english"
ServerName english.mydomain.com
ServerAlias english.mydomain.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost lyrics.eozyo.info>
DocumentRoot "/www/lyrics"
ServerName lyrics.eozyo.info
ServerAlias lyrics.eozyo.info
</VirtualHost>

I've also created the DNS entries for english.mydomain.com and
lyrics.mydomain.com both show an "A Record" to my current IP address (I
work with dynamic IP but I can updated it automatically every single
time it changes, approx. every 3 days).

My DNS entries are as it follows:

Domain Type Class TTL Answer

mydomain.com A IN 120 MY IP
english.mydomain.com. A IN 120 MY IP
lyrics.mydomain.com A IN 120 MY IP

I've stoped making modifications to my httpd.conf cos I cannot get it
right.

Sometimes I get to work english.mydomain.com, but the www.mydomain.com,
mydomain.com and yrics.mydomain.com display the same root director,
i.e.:

english.mydomain.com goes to /www/english/
lyrics.mydomain.com goes to /www/english/ not to /www/lyrics/
www.mydomain.com goes to /www/english/ not to /www/
mydomain.com goes to /www/english/ not to /www/

That's my problem, I've been looking for information for the past 3
days and I've made hundreds of modifications and I don't seem to get it
right, maybe this must be written in ".htaccess" file (which I'm not
very familiar with) or in the "httpd.conf" file; at this point i'm
totally lost, please any advise would be great and I'll really
appreciate it.

Thanks EOZyo.

EOZyo wrote:

> My site hosts music and I would like to set subdomains for each
> language, i.e. english.mydomain.com which goes to
> www.mydomain.com/english

> The configuration I have typed in apache for this, it's almost the same
> configuration I've found almost everywhere, which is the following:
>
> Listen 80
>
> ServerName localhost:80

Add NameVirtualHost <ipaddress>

>
> <VirtualHost <ipaddress>>
> ServerAlias www.mydomain.com
> DocumentRoot "/www"
> ServerName www.mydomain.com
> </VirtualHost>
>
> <VirtualHost <ipaddress>>
> DocumentRoot "/www/english"
> ServerName english.mydomain.com
> ServerAlias english.mydomain.com
> </VirtualHost>


The way you have set this up currently, english.mydomain.com does not
redirect to www.mydomain.com/english but simply maps this to a different
content root.

As long as you use relative links in the content only that will work
okay, but as soon as you have something like <a href="/">Home</a> this
will work differently on english.mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com.

If you want english.mydomain.com only as an alias, add

Redirect / http://www.mydomain.com/english/

--
Klaus Johannes Rusch
KlausRusch@atmedia.net
http://www.atmedia.net/KlausRusch/