Tuesday 28 May 2013

Creating Subdomains with Apache Virtual Hosts | Apache Subdomain Virtual Host Example

Set Up Subdomains with Apache Virtual Hosts

Some people are unaware that the "www" part of the URL is actually a subdomain (http://www.example.com), and can (in theory) point to a different location than http://example.com - it is not advised that you use www as an active sudomain, as most people expect both example.com and www.example.com to have the same content.

This is actually the basis for canonicalisation, but that's another blog post altogether

So how do we set up subdomains using Apache virtual hosts? It's actually very simple, we just need to configure two things, follow this guide for a very simple apache subdomain virtual host example: