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How do I get to one of my subdomains from a
temp.modwest.com or secure.modwest.com URL?

To make your subdomain accessible in a URL as a file path instead of part of a hostname, all you need to do is make a symbolic link to the /htdocs/subdomain from inside the /htdocs/www directory by getting a shell prompt, then:

mkdir /htdocs/subdomain
cd /htdocs/www
ln -s ../subdomain subdomain

where you substitute the name of your subdomain for "subdomain" above.

After that, you will be able to reach your subdomain at http://temp.modwest.com/subdomain and http://secure.modwest.com/subdomain (if you subscribe to the secure service) and http://www.yourdomain.com/subdomain and, as always, http://subdomain.yourdomain.com

User-Contributed Notes

sean -at- heliocreative.com
09-Jun-2003 13:44

This can be a directory nightmare particularly when trying to share
items like server side includes or php includes from one domain to the
next and and from a subdomain to master domain.

09-Jun-2003 15:58

If your php.ini file uses relative include paths instead of absolute,
then there is no problem sharing include files while setting up
directories this way.

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