Creating a Subdomain

This tutorial will take you through creating a subdomain. There are a number of reasons for creating a subdomain, but in essence a subdomain is a way of breaking your domain into distinct parts.

For example, you can have your portfolio at portfolio.yourmomma.net, your blog at blog.yourmomma.net, your personal images at pictures.yourmomma.net, etc. What's more, each of these subdomains represents a directory wherein you can install a new application. For example, an application like WordPress for your blog, maybe some straight-up HTML for your Portfolio, a Content Management System like Drupal (but probably WordPress) for your images, etc.

In short, subdomains are a powerful and effective way to manage your domain and the various applications you run on it.

Creating a Subdomain
From the dashboard click on the "Add Domain" link under the Websites & Domains section of the Dashboard. After that look for the "Add a Subdomain" link towards the bottom of the page and click on it.



From there, you will be able to add your subdomain, just be sure you don't use any special characters. What's more, be sure to change the name of the document root to reflect the name of the subdomain. The document root will be the subdirectory that holds the files for this subdomain.



Keep in mind that once you create a new subdomain it will show up as a drop down domain when installing applications.