How do I create a sub-domain?

Submitted by esadmin on Wed, 29/07/2009 - 17:55

Cheap Business Hosting allow you to create Sub Domains within your cPanel. A Subdomain is an extension of your main domain name. For example: news.mydomainname.co.uk (The added "news" is a known as a subdomain of mydomainname.co.uk).

Instructions:

  1. Log in to your cPanel account
  2. Scroll down the main panel until you see the "Subdomain" Icon
  3. Click on this Icon to open configuration page
  4. Enter the name you require before the domain (Note: if you have more than one domain with us, please select the correct one from the drop down list)
  5. Enter the Root Path you want this Subdomain to go to.
  6. Click "Create" to Complete
  7. Click on the "Home" button on the top left corner of panel to return to the main page

Click here to watch a video Tutorial

A real life example

To help explain what a subdomain is lets follow this real life example.

We will assume that you have a website that is located under your main folder "/public_html", your visitors accessing it via "www.mydomainname.co.uk" and you would like to expand your website with a blog using WordPress, with your visitors using "blog.mydomainname.co.uk" to access it.

  1. From within your cPanel account, use Fantastico to install "WordPress".
  2. During this installation you will be asked where you would like it to be installed and you have chosen "/public_html/myblog" as the folder name.
  3. Once this installation has completed we need to add a subdomain to your expanded website
  4. From your main cPanel homepage click on "Subdomain" icon (normally about halfway down then screen.)
  5. Now enter "blog" in the first box called "Subdomain"
  6. Choose the domain you are wanting to use from the drop down list.
  7. In the box called "Document Root" point to the folder you installed WordPress in, in our example this is "/public_html/myblog".
  8. Finally click on the "Create" button
  9. The newly created subdomain should now appear in a list, along with any other subdomains you may have running under your account.

Now when anyone types in "blog.mydomainname.co.uk" in their web browser it will open your WordPress blog.