browsing through google I have seen that some pages are indexed as www2.whateverdomain.com An example is www2.absolut.com does anyone know anything about this? How can I make a website with the www2?
it is sub domain. you can create sub domain from your hosting control panel. or add them in DNS zone file.
that is subdomain dude... like you buy www.domain .com and start a subdomain in it www.www2.subdomain.com did i make it clear?
It's a subdomain. Think http://www2.domain.com as http://webmail.domain.com. www2 and webmail here are subdomains. Your www is also a subdomain. Therefore, http://anything.domain.com , anything is a subdomain. You can basically have anything in there. You can have http://www1.domain.com too. It can be created in the control panel or DNS manager. You create a cname in the DNS called www2 and point it to an ip address.
I thought that www2 is a special kind of stuff. Can I have a subdoamin with a dot. like subdomain.subdomain.domain.com ?
You can not have a dot in any name. It's against the domain name rules. You can have a hyphen "-" in the domain.com name such as ABC-DEF.com but you can not have anything else in the domain name. A sub domain can have a hyphen or underscore "_" such as abc_def.domain.com. Just these two chars.
you can have any kind of subdomain like if you have registered domain.com than 1.domain.com test.domain.com wwww.domain.com www1.www2.domain.com etc etc you can use N number of subdomains with your domain.......
Here are some good examples: www.domain.com www2.domain.com webmail.domain.com forums.domain.com blog.domain.com shop.domain.com the list goes on and on.
The list of potential sub domain names is virtually endless, but your hosting company might limit the amount you can have. However, it's likely that your requirements are well below any limit.
A rewrite rule alone can not facilitate a subdomain unless wildcard subdomains are set up--the subdomain still has to be there. If it is the second server of the site, it would still have to be a subdomain with a different IP pointer in the DNS record. Jason
hey guys one quick question.is it possible that main domain is hosted on server A and second can be hosted on server B??? or any configuration like that???