Clarification on subdomains

[edwalter]

I know this has been asked before, but I'm looking for a clarification because all the previous discussion didn't spell it out and I don't want to find I had the wrong expectations when I sign up for an addon. Ok, the questions:

To clarify, the "unlimited sub-domains" addon does allow you to have subdomain.mydomain.com that points at a a subdirectory of the primary www.mydomain.com site? Previous comments have said it can point to a "document root" but that is not a clear term for me. Can it point to a subdirectory or somewhere other than the same place as the primary domain. Can that subdirectory be an IIS ASP.NET Application?

The other question I have is, is there a user interface for adding and removing subdomains if I choose the addon? Will I have to go through tech support to make changes? Either way is ok (doing it myself is prefered), but I was just curious before I add this.

[Eric]

The unlimited subdomain addon points:
*.yourdomain.com ---> yourdomain.com

You can redirect the subdomain elsewhere programically.

[TooMuch2AM]

I'm sorry to be a pain, but this still isn't very clear.

Can we have sub.mydomain.com point to www.mydomain.com/sub/ as though www.mydomain.com/sub/ is the root of the site?

I suppose what I'm asking here is can we use subdomains to host multiple sites on our webspace?

[Eric]

You can programmically redirect a specific subdomain to a subdirectory.

[TooMuch2AM]

But surely that means that any graphic or document that is referenced with an absolute path must prefix the path with the /sub?

For instance, a site may have a folder called 'images' in its root, but in order to reference these files the path must read /sub/images/image.gif because the actual root of the site is still that of your domain?

If this is the case it begs the question; why would anyone pay an additional $5 per month when you can achieve the same thing with a $13 domain registration at enom?

Thanks!
M

[Eric]

TooMuch2AM
I'm sorry but I don't understand the issue with absolute paths that you are referring to. Can you elaborate?