Subdomains

[patlaw]

My shared server account uses cPanel. Can someone explain to me how cPanel tells the server to send a browser that enters http://blog.domain.com to open index.htm in http://www.domain.com/blog? There is an entry in Subdomains that does the redirect, but where does cPanel write that information on the server drive?

Second question. When I type in http://webmail.domain.com, how does the server know to redirect to http://domain.com:2095?

 

[JayFromEpic]

Hello,

Regarding your first question, this is achieve through Directory Indexing. This feature basically tells the webserver which page should be the "home" page sorta speak. You can set it to open index.html first or even somerandom.html, it really depends.

Regarding the redirects, that is set within the vhosts of the server itself.