Ok, so I’ve done a bunch of searching so far for this answer, and just can’t really find one that’s clear.
I’m coding my mobile site, just got done with the regular site. I want to direct people to a subdomain to view the site on their phone, e.g. http://m.examplesite.com or like http://m.cnn.com
I’ve setup the subdomain on godaddy.
Where do I put the html files for this subdomain on my site? If someone goes to http://m.examplesite.com, do they view files in the /m folder? If so, what do I name my html files? Do I put an index.html file in that /m folder?
If possible, I like to not include any php or javascript to achieve this. And, I’d also not like to redirect people to something like http://www.examplesite.com/m
What’s the standard way of doing this?
Any help would be great.
(first post on here btw - bought a sitepoint css book, it’s been great)
Please ask GoDaddy support to help you and assist as they are your host.
I am not sure about GoDaddy setup. Mostly users have a folder public_html in LINUX shared hosting. when you create a sub-domain system makes automatically a sub-folder under that folder and you have to upload files into that folder.
Please check your file system and if you find out any folder for sub-domain upload files there.
One last question for ya:
What is the “index.html” file that should go into that folder? In other words, when a user visits my site, www.m.example.com, which html file is it going to look for?
GoDaddy use their own custom version of Plesk as their control panel so only they and those actually using their service would know exactly how they have it set up to handle sub-domains.
The last hosting I had that used Plesk stored the sub-domains in separate folders at the same level as the folder containing the main site but as that was a standard Plesk install and not the modified GoDaddy one that doesn’t mean GoDaddy necessarily have it work that way.
After speaking with 4 different tech support people at Go Daddy, they finally came to that conclusion.
Create a dedicated domain for the site! Just setting up a subdomain based off my regular site www.m.example.com, will NOT keep users there. Ultimately, it just redirect them to www.example.com/m
So I had to upgrade to a deluxe hosting plan to have multiple domains. I set up the m.example.com and it works! woot woot! (just cost me $20 more a year, oh well.)
