Hi guys, I am about to take over as ecommerce manager for a company. Long story short, they have been screwed by the dev company they chose for their site, and I am trying to get creative to move as much of the online marketing efforts away from them. So, instead of paying 20+k for a simple blog setup, im going to do one. Their main site is hosted on a windows box, I am a LAMP man. Can I do something at the domain delegation level to set up say mydomain.com to stay pointing to the main windows based site, but have either blog.mydomain.com or mydomain.com/blog point to a completely seperate hosting environment/server where I can install joomla or wordpress and work from there? I know this company has their mail going to their own mail exchange. Thanks
yes. its just a sub domain and you should be able to forward it from the domain registrar to the new server. Easy if you have a server with a dedicated IP. Or you could just point the sub domain to a folder on the existing server if needed. here's how to do it the manual method: http://content.websitegear.com/article/subdomain_setup.htm and here's how to point a sub domain to another webhost : http://forums.devshed.com/dns-36/host-a-subdomain-on-a-different-web-server-53998.html tons more if you search for "setup sub domain"
Just do it through dns. Main site set up on one server... A Record www.domain.com XX.XX.XX.XX A Record domain.com XX.XX.XX.XX Subdomain set up as fully qualified domain on 2nd server (host) A Record subdomain.domain.com YY.YY.YY.YY With the appropriate host headers set up in IIS. A 2 minute operation. Simple.