XtGem : subdomain

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Create a subdomain of your XtGem site

Subdomains are easy to set up but tricky to get working smoothly.
Basically any folder HTML page or even a media file page (no . file extensions allowed) can be a subdomain of your site all you need to do is create the folder and create a index file in it or just create the HTML page
The folder's index page the file or HTML page can then be accessed as

http://sub.site.xtgem.com

Click this link to open a subdomain of this site
sub.syntax.xtgem.com
Subdomains can be multi level
Click this link to open this HTML page as a multi level subdomain
default.xtgem.manual.syntax.xtgem.com?func=subdomain
Click this link to load an mp3 as a subdomain
mp3.syntax.xtgem.com
Click this link to load an image as a subdomain
image.syntax.xtgem.com
Click this link to download an image as a subdomain
image.syntax.xtgem.com?__xt_download=1

There are two ways to code for a subdomain
The first method uses the

<base>

tag in the

<head>

area of the subdomain page or in the _headtags file of your main site as this is still automatically included
This tag makes all relative links on the subdomain page relative to the address specified in the tag

<base href="http://YOUR SITE.COM" />

You can then create the page in the subdomain folder using most of the building tools as normal

Relative addresses are relative to the main site NOT the subdomain
Links to other pages or files in the subdomain MUST use full http addresses including the subdomain
ie: http://subdomain.site.xtgem.com/folder/file

If you do not use the

<base>

tag these rules apply

Relative addresses are relative to the subdomain NOT the main site
Links to pages or files in the main site MUST be full http addresses
ie: http://site.xtgem.com/folder/file
_header _footer _headtags files will not work for the subdomain if they contain relative addresses
Most of the addresses created by the building tool for links or images using the filebrowser will be incorrect when the page is viewed as a subdomain

These rules apply to all subdomains

The _header _footer and _headtags files are still included from the main site
(_header and _footer can be switched off from the page options in the building tool headtags cannot be turned off)
Your xtgem_template.css and global_stylesheet.css will still apply to the pages in your subdomain

You can upload a separate favicon.ico file which will be used when the page is accessed as a subdomain just upload it into the subdomain folder you can also add a link to the favicon in the pages

<head>

tags area

Note: The forum guestbook and chatroom functions will not work on subdomains
The blog function will work but will show the same blog as your main site
Xt:url function will only return correct urls for the subdomains index file if it is named in the url of the page
ie: http://subdomain.site.xtgem.com/index

Xtscript
headtags switch