Can't Figure Out Subdomains In ISPCONFIG 3

For the past few weeks I've been fooling around with ispconfig, having followed the ubuntu tutorial, which I have to saw was extremely impressed by. Thank you. However, it's been fairly tough to find ispconfig 3 documentation and tutorials, most of articles I've found were for ISPconfig 2 from which I have no experience with. Anyways, after adding a new site under the admin user, I have not been able to get a subdomain working. in the past I've had user experience with cpanel, when you make a subdomain it makes another folder in your user file, like a totally new root. Very easy . What do I do in ispconfig 3! When I click subdomain, I enter the name of my subdomain, then it gives a redirect option with like R, L whatever and then it lists a redirect field. If i want to make a subdomain webmail to install roundcube, what on earth do I have to do, i've tried every combination of things.

Also, as of DNS all I have to do is add a cname record of webmail.mydomain.com correct?

 

I haven't been able to get this to work either. cPanel will create the webroot for sub.domain.com in domain.com/sub. ISPConfig3 creates it as a completely separate directory when you use the create site function. Using the subdomain function appeared to have created an entry but it returns a Page Not Found error in trying to load it. Subdomain function doesn't appear to create any directories anywhere and would probably have to use redirect to go to a subdirectory. Maybe I need to wait for a cron job to run after creating a subdomain?

 

I was just pointing out that they create the directories in different locations.

As far as redirect, I tried to an already existing directory that works fine when called as domain.com/sub but gives a page not found when tried as sub.domain.com redirected to domain.com/sub.

 

This is what I'm doing, creating the following subdomain in ispconfig 3.0.1.3...

HOST: subdomain
DOMAIN: servidora.net
REDIRECT TYPE: R
REDIRECT PATH: /subdomain/
ACTIVE: (Checked)

Trying http://subdomain.servidora.net/ gives "Address Not Found". But http://servidora.net/subdomain/ works fine.

servidora.net.vhost contains the following...

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain.servidora.net [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /subdomain/$1 [R]

and I did restart apache.

 

That is probably it as there was no indication that this needed to be done as a separate step. So the subdomain will need it's own zone? Or just CNAME or an A record in servidora.net?

 

Ok, I did that now and I guess I have to wait for it to propagate.

This is where some of the confusion is maybe for us coming from cpanel as it handles all the DNS entries automatically.

EDIT: Uff... Now it's in a Redirect Loop just adding /subdomain/ over and over to the original subdomain.servidora.net. I give up for now.

Code:

http://subdomain.servidora.net/subdomain/subdomain/subdomain/subdomain/subdomain/subdomain/subdomain/subdomain/subdomain/subdomain/subdomain/subdomain/subdomain/subdomain/subdomain/subdomain/subdomain/subdomain/subdomain/subdomain/

 

Hello,

i have exactly the same problem - Redirect Loop

tripple reread the post and tripple checked my settings, everything setting seem to be the right one

Any Idea

 

I am thinking it has something to do with the interaction of name servers maybe. From my registrar to dyndns to local. But it's still unresolved. I posted previously exactly what I am doing and it is exactly per instructions, but not working.

 

i need now rest and my dog needs a walk, later i can test with our DNS system, which i can control, and some test domain. I will post the results. Btw i already tested with editing my hosts file - the result was again redirect loop...

 

Hello,

just tested it with domain hosted on our dns system, freshly added to the ispconfig3 - the result is the same: Redirect Loop

if that helps: my current system is debian lenny 64 bit, installed according the ispconfig3 documentation

UPDATE:
Just tested it on another server running ISPC3 and debian lenny 64bit, the result is the same: Redirect Loop

 

with option "L" i get: Internal Server Error

and the in the apache stays:

Code:

Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace.

UPDATE: i found that it was my fault with the option L it works on the 2nd server very well!!!

 

strange problem

Hello,

now the redirect works perfect on both servers using the "L" option. Thank you for all the help!!!

I have experienced something very strange
I made a subdomain dev.example.com to redirect to /dev/ subfolder in the WWWROOT of the domain example.com, using the "L". Instead of this the redirect goes to /dev folder on the rootfs

of course that happens only when i want to redirect to /dev/, changing it to something else e.g. /test/ makes it work perfect.