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named and httpd.conf forward a subdomain to another directory on the server

I have the domain warcraftmmo.com and i'd like to forward gmail.warcraftmmo.com to another directory (http://www.warcraftmmo.com/gmail/).

This is my httpd.conf:

<VirtualHost 216.40.235.171>
ServerAdmin webmaster@warcraftmmo.wvutalk.com
DocumentRoot /home/dprundle/public_html/warcraftmmo
BytesLog domlogs/warcraftmmo.wvutalk.com-bytes_log
ServerName warcraftmmo.com
ServerAlias www.warcraftmmo.com

User dprundle
Group dprundle
CustomLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/warcraftmmo.wvutalk.com combined
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/dprundle/public_html/warcraftmmo/cgi-bin/
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 216.40.235.171>
ServerName gmail.warcraftmmo.com
DocumentRoot /home/dprundle/public_html/warcraftmmo/gmail
</VirtualHost>

This is my named:

mail IN CNAME warcraftmmo.com.
www IN CNAME warcraftmmo.com.
gmail 14400 IN A 216.40.235.171
www.gmail 14400 IN A 216.40.236.171

My problem is that gmail.warcraftmmo.com just forwards to www.warcraftmmo.com instead of www.warcraftmmo.com/gmail/

any help is appreciated.

northcide

this has nothing to do with dns. all you need to do is either create a .htaccess file with a redirect to newsite.com/whatever.html.

or just put an index file in the root of the old domains site directory and put a meta redirect for it to go to the new site...

this will outline your options in detail.
http://www.webweaver.nu/html-tips/web-redirection.shtml

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northcide

ouch, yup i totally missed that. you need to configure it for named based virutal hosts rather than ip based virtualhosts, or just give the box a new ip and make each of those virtualhosts unique ip's