I am trying to set up a sub-domain off my main domain name. The main domain is pointing to my dedicated server without any problems. It is set up like this:

NameVirtualHost *

<VirtualHost 209.58.581.1>
DocumentRoot /home/login/public_html
ServerName domain.com.com
ErrorLog /home/login/logs/error_log
CustomLog /home/login/logs/access_log combined
ServerAdmin admin@domain.com
ServerAlias domain.com
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
AddHandler perl-script .pl
UseCanonicalName off
</VirtualHost>

Here is what I entered beneath it in the httpd.conf file:

<VirtualHost statistics.domain.com>
ServerName statistics.domain.com
</VirtualHost>


What am I doing wrong? I want to make sure the sub-domain stats in the address bar the entire time.

Also, what is exactly is the difference between setting UseCanonicalName to on and off? What is a Canonical Domain?

first off, turn canonical name off.
set your NameVirtualHost from * to your dedicated IP address.
In your virtual host directive, you want it to look something like this:

<VirtualHost www.domain.com>
ServerAdmin admin@domain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/domain.com
ServerName domain.com
ServerAlias www.domain.com
ErrorLog logs/domain.com-errorlog
CustomLog logs/domain.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

to have a sub domain, setup another virtual host directive:

<VirtualHost sub.domain.com>
ServerAdmin admin@domain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/sub.domain.com
ServerName sub.domain.com
ServerAlias sub.domain.com
ErrorLog logs/sub.domain.com-errorlog
CustomLog logs/sub.domain.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

then edit your DNS table/record in named and add a line like this:


domain.com. IN A <yourIP>
www IN A <yourIP>
sub IN A <yourIP>


i believe the above will work. if not please e-mail me: matthew@comp-exp.com and i'll send you a copy of my httpd.conf and a copy of my hosts.domain file in named.

good luck.

-matthew-