Sub domains?

[r1zeek]

Obvious example forums.hexus.net

How do you make these "sub domains" as I want to make some for my website.
Thanks

[Tom]

does your hosting have cpanel or similar software? if so then there is the easiest way :]

[r1zeek]

Not sure if it has, i'll post them an e-mail.

I thought I saw somewhere you can do it with a PHP script but I can't think for the life of me how that would work!

[bmh.01]

Well firstly the name has to be added to the DNS for the domain, then the server which hosts the domain must then be configured to accept name-based/ip-based virtual servers.
For example with apache: http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/vhosts/

Though as previously said there may be a control panel that will do all this for you.

[ikonia]

you need an A record in DNS or a CNAME alias pointing at another domain then a host added on your webserver to use this domain.

These aren't actually called sub-domains so don't ask you ISP for sub domains as this isn't what you get


forums.hexus.net is not a subdomain - its just a host record in the hexus.net domain. no different than www.hexus.net is just a host record.

a subdomain would be for example.

forums.prod.hexus.net
forums.dev.hexus.net

You just want another hostname adding.