Hi everyone,

I would greatly appreciate it if someone could help point out what I might have done wrong in trying to map a folder on our server i.e mywebsite.com/abc to a similarly named subdomain i.e abc.mywebsite.com.

Our Linux is CentOS 6.4 on a VPS hosted by Linode


..and here's what the virtual hosts section of Apache config file looks like:

<VirtualHost 12.34.56.78:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@mywebsite.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/mywebsite.com/httpdocs/
ServerName mywebsite.com
ServerAlias http://www.mywebsite.com
<Directory /var/www/vhosts/mywebsite.com/httpdocs/>
AllowOverride all
</Directory>
Alias /webmail "/var/www/html/webmail/"
Alias /postfixadmin "/var/www/html/postfixadmin"
ErrorLog logs/mywebsite.com-error_log
CustomLog logs/mywebsite.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 12.34.56.78:443>
ServerAdmin webmaster@mywebsite.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/mywebsite.com/httpdocs/
ServerName mywebsite.com
ServerAlias http://www.mywebsite.com
<Directory /var/www/vhosts/mywebsite.com/httpdocs/>
AllowOverride all
</Directory>
Alias /webmail "/var/www/html/webmail/"
Alias /postfixadmin "/var/www/html/postfixadmin"
ErrorLog logs/mywebsite.com-error_log
CustomLog logs/mywebsite.com-access_log common
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/mywebsite.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/mywebsite.key
SSLCACertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/ssl123.crt
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 12.34.56.78:443>
ServerAdmin webmaster@mywebsite.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/mywebsite.com/httpdocs/
ServerName abc.mywebsite.com
ServerAlias abc.mywebsite.com
<Directory /var/www/vhosts/mywebsite.com/httpdocs/abc/>
AllowOverride all
</Directory>
Alias /webmail "/var/www/html/webmail/"
Alias /postfixadmin "/var/www/html/postfixadmin"
ErrorLog logs/mywebsite.com.com-error_log
CustomLog logs/mywebsite.com-access_log common
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/mywebsite.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/mywebsite.key
SSLCACertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/ssl123.crt
</VirtualHost>

(I copied the 2nd section of the virtual host section of our Apache config to form the 3rd section and made modifications to it to work with abc.mywebsite.com).

The site resolves, but abc.mywebsite.com its resolving to mywebsite.com.
I'm now thinking that there must be an issue with the Apache config file..
Can anyone help spot it?

Many thanks.

The DocumentRoot is the same in all your vhosts so they all have the same content.

Hi Nibbler,

Thanks for your response.

I have changed document root to
Code:
/var/www/vhosts/mywebsite.com/httpdocs/abc
and/or
Code:
/var/www/vhosts/mywebsite.com/httpdocs/abc/
and restarted the server a number of times.

but abc.mywebsite.com still resolves to mywebsite.com

Could there be other factors that could be responsible for it not resolving to the subdmain/folder?
e.g my DNS entries for creating this subdomain. Here's what my DNS entries look like:

DNS Manager » abc.mywebsite.coom

SOA Record
Primary DNS   Email   Default TTL   Refresh Rate   Retry Rate   Expire Time   Options
ns1.linode.com   me@myemail.com    Default    Default    Default    Default   Settings

NS Records
Name Server   Subdomain   TTL   Options
ns1.linode.com   abc.mywebsite.com    Default   Edit | Remove
ns2.linode.com   abc.mywebsite.com    Default   Edit | Remove
ns3.linode.com   abc.mywebsite.com    Default   Edit | Remove
ns4.linode.com   abc.mywebsite.com    Default   Edit | Remove
ns5.linode.com   abc.mywebsite.com    Default   Edit | Remove
Add a new NS record

MX Records
Mail Server   Preference   Subdomain   TTL   Options
mail.mywebsite.com   10    Default   Edit | Remove
Add a new MX record

A/AAAA Records
Hostname   IP Address   TTL   Options
12.34.56.78    Default   Edit | Remove
mail   12.34.56.79    Default   Edit | Remove
Add a new A record

CNAME Records
Hostname   Aliases to   TTL   Options
www   abc.mywebsite.com    Default   Edit | Remove
Add a new CNAME record

TXT Records
Name   Value   TTL   Options
Add a new TXT record

SRV Records
Service   Domain   Priority   Weight   Port   Target   TTL   Options

Are you able to spot anything I might have entered wrongly?
Thanks.

I was able to do this using apache admin module in webmin.I have completely diff folders for diff virtual host that not even in main htdocs folder hierachy