Birthday wishes and cries for help

[littleheaven]

Firstly, a big Happy Birthday to damnskippytoo for tomorrow.  Which is today here.  I hope you don't mind a premature congratulation *g*

Secondly, HELP!  I was wondering if anyone on my f-list would be able to provide me with a piece of code for DBFandom.com.  We've created some subdomains for a couple of amazing websites that we're going to be hosting, but I am a total novice when it comes to this sort of thing, and have no idea how to map the subdomains to their subdirectories.  The hosting plan we have has a mapping tool, but it doesn't appear to be working *headdesk*

Currently we have subdomain.dbfandom.com, with the subdomain folder located in our htdocs folder (as per the instructions from our hosting provider).  The subdomain folder contains its own htdocs folder within which the subdomain's index page and everything else will reside.  At the moment subdomain.dbfandom.com takes you directly to the dbfandom index page, and I need it to go the the subdomain index page instead?  Argh, am I even explaining it right?  Anyway, apparently I can achieve this with a piece of .htacess code, but that's where I fall over, because I don't know how to write code.  So if anyone could help, it would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you!

Comments

[damnskippytoo.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Claire-bear. *squeeze* It's never too early to praise all that is *me*. In fact, considering my size, it will probably take several days to cover just my amazing butt, so it's good you started early. :D

Sorry, but I can't help with the coding. I use a web editor and it kinda does it all for me.

[astridv.livejournal.com]

Hey. I haven't started uploading anything yet, maybe once something is in the folder, it won't redirect to the main page? I'm pretty sure I'll get around to it today.

Also, I got that really big book about Web programming, so if it won't work right away, the answer might be in there.

[littleheaven70.livejournal.com]

Hi there! I've put a dummy index page in your htdocs folder, so it's not that. It's just that I need the subdomain url to go to your subdirectory, not to the main directory as it does at the moment. The web hosting company has a subdomain mapping tool, but it doesn't seem to work. Laurie's gonna call and ask them to do it at their end, because I've exhausted all the other options at this point!

I'd still be interested in what your Really Big Book says, though. I'm all knowledge-absorby this week :o)

[astridv.livejournal.com]

Just logged in; I see the problem. Okay, no point in uploading the whole archive before we can get it to find the index page. I'll see what my super-smart book has to say on it. If we can't figure anything out by ourselves, I'll ask the bbf list and my friends list... some of those guys are web whizzes.