subdomain works the wrong way...!!

[maxhost]

just have a strange problem.
I i create a subdomain in CPanel:
subdomain.maindomain.com and it does not work.
But if i access it in the following way it works:
maindomain.com/subdomain/

What's wrong ?

subdomains on other account on that server works fine....

Also there where no error message while creating that subdomain.


Thanks for help

 

[kwimberl]

Did you wait for dns to propagate?

 

[maxhost]

these subdomains are added more than 1 week ago....

:-(

 

[parag]

[quote:b2358802d7][i:b2358802d7]Originally posted by maxhost[/i:b2358802d7]

these subdomains are added more than 1 week ago....

:-(
[/quote:b2358802d7]


well it will surely work if you type in domain.com/subdomain - because whenever you create any subdomain it will be created in your www directory as another directory.

if its not accessible through subdomain.domain.com then there are only two possibilities

(1) your DNS zone has no entry for that particular subdomain.

every subdomain you will be creating through your control panel it will add an A entry something similar to below one

subdomain 14400 IN A IPAddress

(2) you must have the entries added into your httpd.conf for that particular subdomain

an example config for httpd.conf would be something similar to the below one

&VirtualHost IP&
BytesLog domlogs/subdomain.domain.com-bytes_log
User youruser
Group youruser
ServerName subdomain.domain.com
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /home/yourdomain/public_html/subdomain
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/yourdomain/public_html/subdomain/cgi-bin/
&/VirtualHost&

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

if any one of these things are missing your subdomain will not work.

i hope this helps you

best regards.
Parag

 

[maxhost]

all seems correct (A record and httpd.conf) but still not work...

any idea ?


thanks

 

[maxhost]

problem solved

problem solved.

he has registered (since this was a domain from a reseller) the domain name with a thid party DNS and then redirect it to the IP address on server instead using his onw DNS.