Subdomain

[Guest]

I use godaddy hosting, and they installed serendipity for me (good)

I want it to be accessed from a subdomain, and can't figure out how to do it (bad)

I am not experienced with this sort of thing at all, although I'm generally pretty computer literate.

currently the blog can only be accessed at
mysite.com/serendipity

but I want it to publish at/write to/whatever
blog.mysite.com

which resides in a folder mysite.com/blog

First, does this request make sense or do I need to clarify? Secondly, what needs to be done to make it work?

[garvinhicking]

If you want this you must setup a subdomain so that its Document Root points to the serendipity directory. I don't know how/if Godaddy supports this, though.

You can do several ways of redirecting from a subdomain to the main domain, and installnig s9y again into your subdomain.

However if godaddy sets it up like this directory structure:

/htdocs/subdomain.domain.com/
/htdocs/domain.com/serendipity/

Then you cannot use the same URL for blogging and must redirect - also pay in mind that your URLs will not be able to use several domains if the paths change, because of HTTP linking issues. So you should choose what URL you want to use for your blog.

Please search the forums for "sub domain", there are many scattered threads about it. You might also want to contact godaddy hosting because I don't know how they do their subdomain services.

Best regards,
Garvin