virtual hosts

hi, i have a server with IIS 6.0 (windows server 2003 enterprise) on it. how can i create websites like http://somesite.dws05.ath.cx/ and does dyndns.org allow virtual hosts?

Start off by learning HTML

http://www.w3schools.com/html

Also, your link is invalid dandano.

i know html and the link was not ment to be a link. websites like aol have sites like webmail.aol.com where they have aol.com and a subdomain. can i make sub domains with windows server 2003 with IIS 6.0 on a dyndns.org website.

Guess I dont understand why if you have yor own 2003 server running IIS you just dont create your own
subdomains on it and host your own website?

that is what i am trying to do. i allready host my own website on it as shown in my signiture but i would like to also get it to host subdomains. my domain is a dyndns domain.

Here you go, I researched it a little for you and this is straight from the dyndns website's FAQ

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How can I make www.myhostname.dyndns.org work?

You need to use the "Enable Wildcard" option, either in your client or in the web form. This will cause *.yourhostname.dyndns.org to point to the same IP address as yourhostname.dyndns.org.

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So then in your server software you'd have to set it up to recognize the wildcard and display the correct webpage that you have set up on the server according to the wildcard (in other words the www. is acting like a webmail.). Your server software would be the one to differentiate the wildcards though not dyndns.

is there a way to get it so that http://subhost.dws05.ath.cx point to http://dws05.ath.cx/subhost/ insted of every sub domain pointing to http://dws05.ath.cx?

i fixed this with a php script which gets the sub domain and redirects to the folder named with the name of the subdomain like http://home.dws05.ath.cx will forward to /home

Apache > IIS :D

In apache you can define root DIR. Dont know about IIS, but that might be better than php.

Don't use Apache. Last time i tried it deleted all my website so im staying with IIS.