Setting Up Subdomains (Windows Hosting)

To set up a subdomain:

  1. Go to Domains > domain name > Subdomains (in the Web Site group).
  2. Click Create Subdomain.
  3. Select the required Hosting type:
  4. Type the subdomain name as required. 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). To add the WWW prefix, select the appropriate check box.

    The subdomain name must begin with an alphabet character. Subdomain names are case insensitive.

  5. If you are creating subdomain on subfolder, specify the physical location for the subdomain files in the Site home directory field:
  6. If you are creating subdomain with physical hosting, specify the FTP user account for it:
  7. Leave the Publish site with Sitebuilder check box selected to be able to access Sitebuilder and build web site through your Parallels Plesk Panel interface. When the Publish site with Sitebuilder option is selected, a site will be created in Sitebuilder.

    All publishing parameters will be set in the paths predefined: for subdomain with Physical hosting - /subdomains/SUBDOMAINNAME/httpdocs/sitebuilder; for subdomain with Subdomain on subfolder - /httpdocs/SUBDOMAINNAME/.

  8. If you want to enable Microsoft FrontPage support, select the appropriate check box. Enable or disable Remote Microsoft FrontPage authoring by selecting the appropriate option.
  9. Specify the programming languages support in the Services group by selecting the required languages. Use select all or clear all to select or clear all of the languages available.

    If the ASP.NET support is disabled on the domain for which you are creating subdomain, it is also unavailable on Subdomain on subfolder. In case the ASP.NET support is enabled on the domain, the ASP.NET is available for subdomain created on a subfolder.

  10. To allow you to view the information on the number of people visited the site and the pages of the site they viewed, select a module in Web statistics drop-down menu and select the accessible via password protected directory /plesk-stat/webstat check box, if required. This will install the selected statistical software module, which will generate reports and place them into the password protected directory. The subdomain administrator will then be able to access Web statistics at the URL: https://subdomain.domain.com/plesk-stat/webstat using their FTP account login and password.

    Note. If subdomain administrator changes the FTP credentials, web statistics access credentials do not change. The original login and password specified upon the subdomain creation should always be used for accessing password-protected Web statistics directory.

  11. Select the Additional write/modify permissions option if this subdomain's Web applications will use a file-based database (like Jet) located in the root of httpdocs or httpsdocs folders. Please note that selecting this option might seriously compromise the web site security.
  12. 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.

To publish Web content to the subdomain's Web space, follow the instruction presented in the section Creating and Publishing a Site.