Subdomains are additional domain names that enable you to:
An example of using subdomains:
You have a Web site 'your-product.com' dedicated to promoting your software product. For publishing user's guides, tutorials and list of frequently asked questions, you can organize the subdomain 'userdocs' so that your users will be able to access online user documentation directly by visiting the domain name 'userdocs.your-product.com'.
To set up a subdomain:
This can be, for example, a topic of your 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.
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.
Otherwise, your web site may not function properly. For example, if your web site is written mainly in ASP and uses some applications written in PHP, such as those from the Application Vault, select the ASP support and PHP support check boxes.
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.
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 Publishing Your Site section.
To preview the web content published under the subdomain, on your Home page, click the Subdomains icon, and then click an icon
corresponding to the subdomain name.
To remove a subdomain with its web content:
The subdomain configuration and its web content will be removed from the server.