Takkun

Solved! I emailed tech support (technical@Xisto - Web Hosting.com) and asked if they could change my subDomains root folder. Apparently it's quite a simple procedure for them. Within 12 hours later, it was done and works perfectly! The new root for the subDomain also shows up in CPanel/SubDomains page. Kudos to Stanley in tech support!

While the "CPanel Help" explains most items that may fall under the "How To" category, some items are still not covered. For example, I'm trying to figureout how to re-specify a root folder for one of my subDomains (discussed in the Technical Support forum). When I learn this glorious knowledge, where can I share it? Curently, users must browse through the TechSupport forum, reading endless questions and comments of confusion. I suggest a "How To" forum in which people can post short guide that are not covered in the general help system. No subjects like, "How do I bla, bla, bla..." but instead, "Adding bla, bla, bla is done like this". This way there is less confusion amoungst the community and people wont be asking the same old questions again and again and wasting time looking in the techSupport forum.

Thanks for the suggestions. Yes you are correct: I am taking about a sub-domain and not an add-on domain. Hmm, I never thought of that php-method; but I dont want any re-direction to other urls (I explain this in the last paragraph of this post). After a bit of research last night, I discovered what I'm looking for: Symbolic Links link1, link2 (I'll try it in SSH, if I can "someday" connect to the server!). My Situation: Lets say I have three files: site.domain.org/index.php site.domain.org/forum/phpbb2/index.php site.domain.org/forum/phpbb2/login.php ...and 2 subDomains: forum.domain.org site.domain.org Naturally, my forum's subDomain needs to act as if the phpbb2 directory is it's root directory. When I click on a link that says "forum.domain.org/login.php", then that?s the exact URL I want to see in my Address Bar (after the page loads). Furthermore, this needs to work for all files in the phpbb2 folder (all pages, images, etc...). This would be a very SIMPLE task if I could just specify the root directory for any given subDomain. Well, maybe I'll just have to ask support to do it for me.

Edit: This issue has been solved. See last post. When I set up a subDomain, it automatically assigns a folder to it. This is fine for only basic configurations. Instead, I need to specify the path, like this: I can do this easily with apache (my localhost test-rig; adding a virtualhost) and I thought I could do this in CPanel by specifying the path for a subdomain. However, this CPanel setup pre-defines a folder and I dont know how to change it! I tried a subDomain redirect but it just removes the -short- subDomain url with the real -longer- one. Any ideas, questions, thoughts?