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

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 support

CGI scripts can be used to retrieve information from databases, perform searches and more.

As a User Administrator, you can:

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