Virtual Hosts & Subdomains

[Alejandro Imass]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 2:19 PM, David Hughes <dghughes82 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Forgive me if this is slightly off-topic, but I wonder if I could trouble
> you for some advice about setting up website subdomains with Apache. I
> currently have a website up and running on a jailed VPS; I've been trying to
> set up subdomains so that one might navigate to a certain area of the site
> by using a URL of the form blog.mywebsite.net rather than
> mywebsite.net/blog.
>
> I've tried reading the official Apache documentation and a number of
> tutorials that I've found online, but nothing I've tried has worked so far.
> Do Virtual Hosts behave differently if they're within a jail? Or do I need
> some sort of DNS registration for subdomains? I've been trying to figure it
> out by myself, with little success so far - I'm quite new to this.

Please specify some more info:

Are you in a FreeBSD Jail and you have a public or private IP bound to the Jail?