Virtual Subdomains and Wildcards

**w3media** · 09-01-2007 03:16 PM

People,

I am searching and searching for over 7 hours now to get my website working on cPanel.

I have a website which was running on Plesk 7.5 for several years. Now I sold the website and the buyer wants me to install it on his hosting server running:

WHM 11.2.0 cPanel 11.10.0-S16448 + CENTOS Enterprise 5 i686 - WHM X v3.1.0

What I did was:
1. Uploaded all files using FTP
2. Imported the complete database and the front page is working.

To get the virtual subdomains working I did:
3. Add a A record called * linked to the IP of the server/website
4. opened /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf and searched for:

Code:

<VirtualHost 85.17.177.209>
ServerAlias www.geilestart.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@geilestart.com
DocumentRoot /home/geilesta/public_html
ServerName geilestart.com

User geilesta
Group geilesta
BytesLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/geilestart.com-bytes_log
CustomLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/geilestart.com combined
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/geilesta/public_html/cgi-bin/
</VirtualHost>

I've changed this to:

Code:

<VirtualHost 85.17.177.209>
ServerAlias www.geilestart.com *.geilestart.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@geilestart.com
DocumentRoot /home/geilesta/public_html
ServerName geilestart.com

User geilesta
Group geilesta
BytesLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/geilestart.com-bytes_log
CustomLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/geilestart.com combined
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/geilesta/public_html/cgi-bin/
</VirtualHost>

After this action:
5. service httpd restart

I can see the website's frontpage on www.geilestart.com but when I click a subdomain like http://uw.geilestart.com/ I see:

Great Success !
Apache is working on your cPanel® and WHM™ Server

Anyone any idea what is wrong?

Any help will be much appreciated!

Best regards,

w3Media

**Infopro** · 09-01-2007 05:13 PM

Should be:

Code:

<VirtualHost 85.17.177.209>
ServerAlias www.geilestart.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@geilestart.com
DocumentRoot /home/geilesta/public_html
ServerName geilestart.com

User geilesta
Group geilesta
BytesLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/geilestart.com-bytes_log
CustomLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/geilestart.com combined
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/geilesta/public_html/cgi-bin/
</VirtualHost>


<VirtualHost 85.17.177.209>
ServerAlias www.uw.geilestart.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@geilestart.com
DocumentRoot /home/geilesta/public_html/uw
ServerName geilestart.com

User geilesta
Group geilesta
BytesLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/uw.geilestart.com-bytes_log
CustomLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/geilestart.com combined
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/geilesta/public_html/uw/cgi-bin/
</VirtualHost>

Creating a subdomain via the accounts cPanel should have added these correctly.
Any reason you choose to go the manual route? Just curious.