Couple of questions

[SeñorAmor]

I have a couple of questions that I'm hoping you guys could help me out with. Bear with me as I'm somewhat a newbie to cPanel.

1.) How do I set up a subdomain so that it doesn't change the url? For example, I have www.domain.com/subdir. I set up a subdomain of subdir.domain.com in cPanel, and when I go to it after the DNS resolves properly, it changes the url to www.domain.com/subdir. Is there an easy way to do this without the url changing?

2.) I've been searching all over looking for a way to use a script that will allow my users to login to a portion of my site using their cPanel login and pass. I've checked and I know I need to match the encrypted password in /etc/shadow, but I can't figure out how to do the encryption properly so I can verify passwords. I would prefer to do this in PHP, if at all possible, but if it must be done in Perl, that's acceptable as well.

Thanks in advance,
Jay

[SeñorAmor]

Hello?

[SarcNBit]

Originally posted by SeñorAmor
1.) How do I set up a subdomain so that it doesn't change the url? For example, I have www.domain.com/subdir. I set up a subdomain of subdir.domain.com in cPanel, and when I go to it after the DNS resolves properly, it changes the url to www.domain.com/subdir. Is there an easy way to do this without the url changing?

The URL should not change. If you setup a subdomain within cPanel such that http://www.example.org/news points to http://news.example.org , then people browsing to http://news.example.org/index.html should see the page located at /public_html/news/index.html. The URL should not change to http://www.example.org/news/index.html

Try a generic subdomain (for example "testsub") and see if it works.

[SeñorAmor]

Thanks for your reply. Am I correct in assuming I do not want to set up redirection?

[PbG]

If I'm understanding you correctly redirection should not be necessary . . .

[SeñorAmor]

Ok. I figured there was a problem with the DNS so I removed and readded the subdomain. It now does not change the URL, however when I go to sub.domain.com, it takes me to plain old www.domain.com and not www.domain.com/sub.

Ugh. Seriously, what am I doing wrong?

[SarcNBit]

Originally posted by SeñorAmor
Am I correct in assuming I do not want to set up redirection?

That is correct. You only need to use subdomains.

I do not understand what DNS changes you made, but you do not ordinarily need access to BIND to setup a subdomain (an ordinary cpanel user can do it).

[SeñorAmor]

Originally posted by SarcNBit
That is correct. You only need to use subdomains.

I do not understand what DNS changes you made, but you do not ordinarily need access to BIND to setup a subdomain (an ordinary cpanel user can do it).

I meant I figured something didn't propogate properly so I removed and readded the subdomain.

I think I figured out what my problem is. I have the subdomain setup for a secure part of my site (port 443). It would seem that http://sub.domain.com works but https://sub.comain.com does not.

What would I need to do to make it work? I apologize for not thinking about this until now.