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I need to point admin.company.com to 192.168.2.100/admin

How can I do that?

gAMBOOKa
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You cannot do this through etc hosts. You are mixing up 2 different protocols here, http and dns. /etc/hosts will help you redirect admin.company.com to 192.168.2.100, but you need to the redirection to /admin on the web server.

If you are using apache you want to likely used named virtual hosts

...
Port 80
ServerName server.domain.tld

NameVirtualHost 111.22.33.44 

<VirtualHost 111.22.33.44>
DocumentRoot /www/domain
ServerName www.domain.tld
...
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 111.22.33.44>
DocumentRoot /www/subdomain
ServerName www.sub.domain.tld
...
</VirtualHost>

This article outlines this: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/vhosts/examples.html

pablo
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  • Hmm.. how can I do this then? I want admin.local.com pointing to one directory, and a staff.local.com pointing to another? – gAMBOOKa Feb 12 '11 at 10:18
  • added to my entry - thats for apache let me know if you are using IIS on the webserver. Also keep in mind that debian/ubuntu/cent also sometimes use their own configuration files. More information on what your setup is will help advise on how to help – pablo Feb 12 '11 at 12:35