: Despite adding a CNAME record for a subdoman, the webserver is showing the server's default host I want one subdomain to point to another on the same domain. DNS Records Type
I want one subdomain to point to another on the same domain.
DNS Records
Type Name Value
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A s1.example.com 10.20.30.40
CNAME s2.example.com s1.example.com
s1.example.com has a valid A record. If I go to s2.example.com I get the server's default virtual host.
What is the correct way to achieve this? Am I doing this wrong by attempting this via the DNS records? Do I need to set up a ServerAlias in the virtual host for s1.example.com instead?
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No. Sorta. It appears, you are, in effect, trying to use DNS as a redirect. That does not work.
If this is what you are trying to do, you will need to add your s2.example.com site to your web server and put in a redirect from one to the other into an .htaccess file or better yet, just map the s2 site file system directory to the s1 directory.
The reason why you are getting a so-called default site, is because if a site does not exist on Apache, it will return the first site created. For some Apache installs, this is a catch-all site. For the others, it is the first site you create yourself.
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