How to create sub-domain from your website domain

If you have ever wondered what a sub-domain is, what you can do with one and how you can create one, then this blog post is for you. The previous blog post shows you how to create your Business or Professional e-mail from your domain name. This post will show you how to create a sub-domain from your website domain name. You can also watch the video to this post on our Youtube Channel or scroll down the end of this post to watch.

Sub-domains allow you to have a new web address for separate areas of your website, with sub-domain, you can host multiple and related websites under the same domain name and your hosting package without having to make a new or different purchase.

For instance if your domain name is “webhostville.co.uk” and you want to create a separate area for a different or related website, let say it is a membership area for your main site, then your sub-domain will be something like “members.webhostville.co.uk”. You will access this website with the URL “http://www.members.webhostville.co.uk and the files for this website will be in a sub-directory like “…/public_html/members”.

Before going into the steps to create you sub-domain, lets check out the web files from the “File-Manager”. The “File” panel on the Control Panel gives you tools to manage your web files.

Click on the “File Manager” icon to get to server where you upload your web files.
Click on the file “public_html” and this opens up the server files containing folders of directories and files that make up the website.
In this folder, there are two different directories for two different website under the same domain.
You can upload folders and create directories directly using the “File Manager” tools or using FTP tools.
You can also create directories when you create your sub-domain.
Click on the “Go Back” button at the bottom of the page to go back to the Control panel homepage.
From the “Web Tools” panel, click on the “Sub-Domain” icon, from here you can create “sub-domains” for your website.
On this web hosting package, you can create up to 5 sub domains.
Enter the name you want to give the sub-domain, in this case I enter “members”.
Then, enter the name of the sub-directory you want for the web files on the server, which is “members” in this case.
Web files on this sub-directory will be connected for access from the sub-domain you entered.
Click on “Create” button, the “sub-domain” and “sub-directory” will be created for you.
It may take up to one hour for your sub-domain to be active.
You can “Modify” the directory if you need to.
You can also create several sub domains depending on your package allowance.
Click on the “Go Back” button at the bottom of the page to go back to the Control panel homepage.
Let’s check out the newly created sub-directory and sub-domain.
Click on the “File-manager” icon on the file panel (see the picture of the file manager above).
Click on the “public-html” directory (See the directory picture above).
There you will see the newly created “members” sub-directory along with the others.
Click to open the “members” sub-directory.
The newly created directory is empty at first.
You can then create an index.html file as a place-holder for the directory.
When you access the sub-domain “members.webhostville.co.uk” the home-page will default to the index.html file. This is where you will start building the website you want to have on this sub-domain.
In this demo you will access your main domain from this url: “http://webhostville.co.uk” and you will access your “members” sub-domain from this “http://members.webhostville.co.uk”
Each of the areas of your website can have different or related websites as you wish.
You can have a main website, a blog, e-commerce, membership, staging or demo area depending on your goals.
Now that you know how to create sub-domain from your domain name, check out www.webhostville.com to get your domain name and web hosting services.
Also check out the previous posts on how to how-to create your Professional or Business e-mail from your domain name and how-to make your orders from Webhostville Services.
Watch the video to this post.