Umbraco Subdomains

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How-to
This is a tutorial on how to set up subdomains with Umbraco installed in root to target documents or folders (another web site).

Chapters

• Chapter 1: About The Author

About The Author

My name is Kevin Keeney, and I'm known as "Kevinul" on the Internet due to it's my first nickname on the Internet while registering for an online game. It's stuck with me so here I'm still using it.

This "book" is meant to help you with Umbraco's sub-domain feature for those who would like multiple web sites (multi-sites) or for those who want a document to have a sub-domain.

Note to Reader: This is my first "book", and so please bare with me. I would like your feedback, and any changes with Umbraco about this feature, please also contact me about via E-Mail at kevinul@live.com.

Setup with Control Panel

This "book" assumes you have a control panel of which I'll be using Parallels' Plesk Control Panel supplied by my current web hosting company. If you have a different control panel, for example Helm, the process should be the same.

1. Now, login into your control panel.
2. Navigate yourself to "Subdomains" section, and click on "Create Subdomain" on the page. Click on the "Subdomain or subfolder" option and click the Next >> button.
3. Input your desired subdomain, and it's optional for you to include the WWW setting. I would recommend you not too due to some confusion of users later on.
4. Click Finish.

You might receive an error that Plesk could not write into web.config file about ASP.NET setting, and I found this not to be concerned with.

Modify Umbraco Config File

In a default installation, you need to use any client you choose to edit the files located on the server, and locate umbracoSettings.config in '<root>/config/' folder. Then, find (Most clients I have come up with have a common keystroke, CTRL + F, to use a find text dialog.) the following.

<UseDomainPrefixes>

Change "false" into "true" without quotations between the above tag. You're now done with this part, and so you may now save it to add it to the server.

Umbraco Control Panel

Login to your web site's control panel, and click Content in the Section box. There is where you may choose what page or folder to have your subdomain attached to. Once you've made your choice, right-click with your mouse over your choice anc click Manage hostnames in the menu.

Everything should be straight-forward from there.