Question

I want to create subdomains manually on my website as in my current hosting plan I have no option of creating a subdomain.
I think perhaps this is possible using .htacces???

Please give two examples in answers for
agrimgupta DOT com/oranges –> blog DOT agrimgupta DOT com/
and
agrimgupta DOT com/work/UniV –> study DOT agrimgupta DOT com/

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

This is certainly possible to do, but will depend on your hosting setup.

If you are able to create a wildcard DNS entry, you can map all subdomains of agrimgupta.com to the same IP address. If your web host is giving you a dedicated IP address and using an IP-based virtual host, these domains will all point to your web application. You could then use mod_rewrite or a custom index.php file to route the requests to different resources based on the subdomain.

Note that you will run into some hurdles here trying to re-map files to the proper directories.

This sample mod_rewrite code will do a simple redirect when you access blog.agrimgpta.com and point the user to the files under /oranges. The user won’t actually be “browsing” under blog.agrimgupta.com however – that will take some more effort to accomplish. (At that point, you may just consider switching to a web host that will support multiple domains/subdomains.)

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} blog.agrimgupta.com
    RewriteRule /$ http://www.agrimgupta.com/oranges/ [R=301,L]
</IfModule>