164 Serving Your Customers
Setting up Subdomains
To set up a subdomain:
1 Click the Domains shortcut in the navigation pane.
2 Click the required domain name in the list.
3 Click the Subdomains icon.
4 Click the Add New Subdomain icon.
5 Type the subdomain name as desired. This can be, for example, a
topic of a site, organization department, or any other combination of
letters, numbers and hyphens (up to 63 characters in length).
The subdomain name must begin with an alphabet character. Subdomain names
are case insensitive.
6 If this subdomain will hold a part of your own Web site that you
manage on your own, leave the Use the FTP user account of the parent domain
option selected. If this subdomain will hold a separate web site that
will belong to or will be managed by another person, select the Create a
separate user account for this subdomain option, and specify the login name
and password that will be used for accessing the web space through
FTP and publishing web site content.
7 If this subdomain will require secure transactions, select the SSL
support check box. Then, the SSL certificate installed under the parent
domain will be used for encrypting transactions.
By default, when you publish the site, you need to upload the web content that
should be accessible via secure connections to the httpsdocs directory, and the
content that should be accessible via plain HTTP, to the httpdocs directory. For
your convenience, you can choose to publish all content through a single location –
httpdocs directory, to do this, select the option Use a single directory for housing SSL
and non-SSL content.
8 Specify the programming languages in which the web site is
developed. Otherwise, the web site may not function properly.
For example, if the web site is written mainly in ASP and uses some applications
written in PHP, such as those from the Application Vault (Home > domain name>
Application Vault), select the ASP support and PHP support check boxes.
9 If you wish to limit the amount of disk space that can be occupied by
web content under this subdomain, type the desired value in
megabytes into the Hard disk quota box.
When the specified limit is exceeded, you will not be able to add files to the web
space, and editing existing files may corrupt them.
10 To complete the setup, click OK. It may take up to 48 hours for the
information on new subdomain to spread in the Domain Name System
and become available to the Internet users.
