Hi

First of all I am sorry if I am posting this in the wrong section, mods pls move it to the right section if so.


I have a domain name say www.abc.com hosted on a server say "Server1"

I have created a subdomain for that domain say http://chat.abc.com

Now, what I want is, I want to host chat.abc.com to another server say "Server2", which means chat.abc.com should point to another Server2 instead of Server1.

Please tell me the steps to do this (changing DNS records etc).


I will be highly greateful to you. Please?


Thank you so much in advance.

Hello,

Your correct, you would do this with via DNS.

In your DNS zone for 'abc.com' just create an 'A' record called 'chat' pointing to the IP of the server hosting chat.abc.com.

How do I do this without using a control panel?

If your not using a control panel you will just have to add a virtualhost to your apache configuration file for the sub domain. Here is an example below:

<VirtualHost xx.xx.xxx.xxx:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@chat.abc.com
DocumentRoot /path/to/chat.abc.com/
ServerName chat.abc.com
ErrorLog /var/www2/logs/chat.abc.com_error_log
CustomLog /var/www2/logs/chat.abc.com_access_log common

<Directory /path/to/chat.abc.com/cgi-bin/>
Options +ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script cgi pl
</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Now you just restart apache and modify the DNS. In your DNS zone for 'abc.com' just create an 'A' record called 'chat' pointing to the IP of the server hosting chat.abc.com.