About subdomains
Subdomains are lower-level domains hosted on a registered root domain and can be accessed by typing the subdomain URL in a browser.
http://
mysubdomain
.
example
com
3rd level domain
2nd level domain
Top-level domain or 1st level domain
For example to access the subdomain, mysubdomain, hosted on the site, example.com, you need to type in the following URL in your browser.
http://mysubdomain.example.com
As the owner of the subdomain, you can upload content to the subdomain directory using any of the remote access services enabled by your administrator: FTP, Telnet or SSH.
To find out the directory where you can upload content, note the Full Directory Path field in the Subdomain Details form.
If your subdomain is hosted on a root domain that has aliases configured, then you can access your subdomain using the inherited aliases. You can also run CGI scripts, if your administrator has enabled CGI support.
Aliases are nicknames or alternative web addresses that map to an existing subdomain.
For example, if the root domain, www.example.com, with the associated alias, www.example.org, has a subdomain, sales.example.com, then the subdomain can also be accessed using the alias, sales.example.org.
CGI scripts can be used to retrieve information from databases, perform searches and more.
Note: The CGI scripts will be located in your home directory under the public_html folder. /home/<user_name>/public_html/cgi-bin To access the CGI scripts from the browser, type http://<domain_name>/~<user_name>/cgi-bin/<script_name> where: <domain_name> is the domain name of the site on which your subdomain is hosted <user_name> is your user name <script_name> is the name of the cgi script
As a User Administrator, you can:
View the list of subdomains
View subdomain details