[Typo3] What is the best way to set up a multiple site with subdomains?

[Gilles Deacur]

Gilles Deacur wrote:
> Michiel Roos wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 19:34:46 -0500, Gilles Deacur wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Man, can I just say I am glad I found this group.  I've been pulling 
>>> my hair out the last 2 weeks due to the frustrating and confusing 
>>> navigation on the Typo3 site.  This newsgroup looks very promising.
>>
>>
>> Hope we can help you.
>>
>>
>>> This is my situation:
>>> I have a main domain sunshinelocksmith.com. I want to install typo3 
>>> into a subdomain called admin-maint.sunshinelocksmith.com.  I did 
>>> that and the site worked fine from the subdomain.  But I want to have 
>>> typo3 run multiple domains.  A few would be subdomains such as 
>>> critterpal.sunshinelocksmith.com, deacur.sunshinelocksmith.com, 
>>> monkeywithatypewriter.sunshinelocksmith.com, etc.
>>
>>
>> Understood, this is possible.
>>
>>
>>> I imagine this all can be done, but my real problem comes with the 
>>> URL in the browser bar.  I don't want the address to read 
>>> "critterpal.sunshinelocksmith.com/this-page/" but rather 
>>> "www.critterpal.com/this-page/".  I'm having troubles with this at 
>>> the moment and suspect this is because I have the typo3 installed in 
>>> a subdomain.

Oops... my mistake.  I just checked (don't know why I didn't proofread 
this yesterday), but the address doesn't say 
"critterpal.sunshinelocksmith.com/this-page/", it says 
"admin-maint.sunshinelocksmith.com/this-page/".

What I want is for it to say "www.critterpal.com/this-page/", not having 
the the "admin-maint" stuff in there.



>>
>>
>> Why is this a problem? You own the names critterpal.com and
>> sunshinelocksmith.com.
>>
>> To make Typo3 recieve all the requests for the subdomains etc, your vhost
>> entry should look something like this:
>>
>> <VirtualHost sunshinelocksmith.com:80>
>>   ServerName sunshinelocksmith.com
>>   ServerAlias critterpal.sunshinelocksmith.com
>>   ServerAlias critterpal.com
>>   ServerAlias deacur.sunshinelocksmith.com
>>     DocumentRoot /home/httpd/htdocs/typo3Root
>>   CustomLog    /home/httpd/logs/sunshinelocksmith.com/access combined
>>   ErrorLog     /home/httpd/logs/sunshinelocksmith.com/errors
>> </VirtualHost>
>>
>> Then it is Typo3's problem to answer the requests with the correct
>> content. Therefore, you must specify domain entries for all your sites.
>> If you want your location bar to read "www.critterpal.com/this-page/",
>> make your links point there.
>>
>>
>>> Am I correct?  Does this need to go into the root to work like I 
>>> want, or can this work like I want from a subdomain?
>>
>>
>> I don't understand your problem here.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>> Michiel
> 
> 
> 
> Oooo... yah... well, I'm on a shared server with cpanel.  Is there a way 
> I can access that file?
> 
> I have a .htaccess file that was edited to run the RealURL.