Best Way to Setup Subdomains?

[raindog308]

Imagine you have a user named somecorp with the domain example.com:

Home directory: /home/somecorp
Web root: /home/somecorp/public_html

www.example.com - would be served out of /home/somecorp/public_html

Now he wants to add somesub.example.com

If you put it in public_html like this:

/home/somecorp/public_html/somesub/

then going to www.example.com/somesub will navigate to it. It also looks confusing in the web root - is "somesub" a directory in the main www.example.com web root, or is it a separate subdomain?

Unfortunately, putting it outside public_html breaks things.

I wish you could setup like this:

public_html/example.com - www.example.com
public_html/somesub.example.com
public_html/somethingelse.com
etc.

...where each of those is a web root. Alas.

So how do you do subdomains? Any "best practice"?

 

[PlotHost]

You can make a separate cPanel account for the subdomain. I prefer this approach instead of making a subdomain under the main account.