Apache and subdomain

[Franko126]

For my production web site I want to create a subdomain...on my local test machine running apache 1.3.23 (in the windows environment) i only have my main site as the document root. For the subdomain to 'act' like it would on the production server (path and file wise) I would have to reset the config data to that directory everytime i wanted to see it. Is there anyway that I could set the subdomain up on my local machine to act like it would on the production machine? I hope you all understood what im asking but if you need another (clearer) explaination just ask...
-Frank

[coditoergosum]

Well, your question isn't totally clear, but I think I understand what you're trying to do. Basically, you want your subdomain to point to a different directory, i.e. have a different documentroot, right?

If so, then you should use vhosts. It's very easy to setup. Here is the config I use for a subdomain on one of my sites:

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName brad.gagon.net
DocumentRoot c:/apache/htdocs/brad
</VirtualHost>

You will also need "NameVirtualHost *" (without the quotes) somewhere in there... I have it just above the vhost directives.