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	Mapping a Domain to a Specific Folder

Solution If you wish to map a domain name to a specific folder, the following are instructions in how to achieve this.

Example: you want mydomain.com/blog/ folder can be accessed at news.mydomain.com

Ensure that mydomain.com/blog/ and news.mydomain.com already exist.

Log into your account through SSH.

To create a map from the domain to the folder you will need to use symbolic links. To create a link, use the following command (command should be typed on one line):

ln -s /usr/home/www/$username/websites/$domain.com/docs/$folder /usr/home/www/$username/websites/$mapped_domain/docs

where
$username - your hosting account username
$domain.com - the domain you want to map from
$folder - the folder you want to map
$mapped_domain - the domain you want to map to

Please note that you should remove the /docs folder for $mapped_domain before running a command, otherwise you will get a error message "File already exists".

In the case of the example, that would be:

ln -s /usr/home/www/$username/websites/mydomain.com/docs/blog /usr/home/www/$username/websites/news/docs