subdomain confusion

[Nishant80]

Hello,
I created a subdomain called subdomain.domain.com and the directory was placed under "/public_html/subdomains". Now, my confusion is that the subdomain can be access by both the URLS, i.e. subdomain.domain.com AND domain.com/subdomain.

However, I just want the subdomain to work, I don't want people to be able to access the subdomain via domain.com/subdomain. How can I accomplish this?

Note - Setting up domain redirection isn't working as its generating a loop error.

 

[quietFinn]

However, I just want the subdomain to work, I don't want people to be able to access the subdomain via domain.com/subdomain. How can I accomplish this?

What if you don't tell people that it's possible?

 

[Nishant80]

What if you don't tell people that it's possible?

That is always there, but there always are those "curious" people who try a lot of things. And there has to be a way around for this, no?

 

[quietFinn]

That is always there, but there always are those "curious" people who try a lot of things. And there has to be a way around for this, no?

The best thing to do is to place the sudomain in /home/CPANELUSERNAME/subdomain directory instead of /home/CPANELUSERNAME/public_html/subdomain.

 

[Nishant80]

The best thing to do is to place the sudomain in /home/CPANELUSERNAME/subdomain directory instead of /home/CPANELUSERNAME/public_html/subdomain.

Yeah I've thought of that before. It wouldn't cause any technical issues later right? Since the source is not within public_html?

 

[quietFinn]

It wouldn't cause any technical issues later right? Since the source is not within public_html?

No, nothing at all.

 

[cPanelMichael]

The best thing to do is to place the sudomain in /home/CPANELUSERNAME/subdomain directory instead of /home/CPANELUSERNAME/public_html/subdomain.

This is correct. It's fully supported to create the subdomain with it's document root outside of the traditional public_html directory. You should not encounter any issues when doing this.

Thank you.