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How to host a subdomain whilst keeping www as a redirect?

clarkee — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:53:13 GMT

Our main domain http://www.air3.uk.com is setup as a redirect to another ISP who host our current site. This works fine.

However, we are testing a new website and our developers have uploaded it to our BT hosting FTP folder.

How do we setup a subdomain (eg http://test.air3.uk.com) which points to our FTP folder so that we can test our developer's new website? I know that in the Advanced Domain Manager I can set an alias for the subdomain, but what would I point it to, so that it points at the public folder of my FTP home directory?

thanks

Re: How to host a subdomain whilst keeping www as a redirect?

dave — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:23:31 GMT

Hi Clarkee,

You can't set up a subdomain like this, however before the domain is pointed to the server you can test the site by going to http://c31.sitepreviewer.com/air3.uk.com

You can subsititute the domain at the end if you need to view any other webspace in this way.

Re: How to host a subdomain whilst keeping www as a redirect?

clarkee — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 17:00:20 GMT

thanks - that worked great.

Unfortunately we now want the site to go live.

We removed the redirect that been on the domain and now www.air3.uk.com just fails. There is no dns entry at all - what's going on?

thanks

Re: How to host a subdomain whilst keeping www as a redirect?

dave — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 19:59:46 GMT

Set an A record for it pointing to 209.235.144.9 and it will work.