Hi there,

I am not using a hosted server (Windows 2003), but my own server with
a static IP. I would like to have a subdomain that maps to a
particular directory. Could you please advise on how this could be
done?

My domain is registered with GoDaddy and I believe they support
subsomains... however, I believe this would work only if I hosted it
on their website...

Thanks!

<janefield2002@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi there,
>
> I am not using a hosted server (Windows 2003), but my own server with
> a static IP. I would like to have a subdomain that maps to a
> particular directory. Could you please advise on how this could be
> done?

Subdomains (in DNS) cannot do that.

> My domain is registered with GoDaddy and I believe they support
> subsomains... however, I believe this would work only if I hosted it
> on their website...

Web Servers (IIS etc) can however setup virtual servers, aka sites,
which provide different content based on the server domain name.

My guess is this (web sites) are what you really wish to implement so
just use your IIS server to configure new sites and differentiate them
by DNS name.

In this case, you will NOT (typically) setup "subdomains" but merely
additional server names (with extra tag levels if you wish).

www.domain.com ----> some content
another.domain.com ---> some other content
web.evenmore.domain.com ---> even different content

Each of these would be a distinct "site" or "virtual server" on a single
web server.

Thank you. However, could you let me know how I can do the below on
iis?

>
> In this case, you will NOT (typically) setup "subdomains" but merely
> additional server names (with extra tag levels if you wish).
>
> www.domain.com----> some content
> another.domain.com ---> some other content
> web.evenmore.domain.com ---> even different content
>
> Each of these would be a distinct "site" or "virtual server" on a single
> web server.

<janefield2002@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Thank you. However, could you let me know how I can do the below on
> iis?

Sure, right click on the server and create a new site, then set the site
to use the DNS name(s) you wish, along with the path to the files in
the properties for the site.


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>> In this case, you will NOT (typically) setup "subdomains" but merely
>> additional server names (with extra tag levels if you wish).
>>
>> www.domain.com----> some content
>> another.domain.com ---> some other content
>> web.evenmore.domain.com ---> even different content
>>
>> Each of these would be a distinct "site" or "virtual server" on a single
>> web server.
>
>