[users@httpd] Creating subdomains on the fly

[Mandy Singh <ma...@gmail.com>]

Hello Everyone,

Hope everyone is doing good :)

I have seen this on many hosting sites, where you go and register and then
you immediately get a url like
http://{your_username}.theirdomain.com<http://%7byour_username%7d.theirdomain.com/>
.

I know that this involves 2 steps on my windows box -

1) adding an entry in the hosts file

2) adding a name based virtual host

However, now I have a requirement to do this on linux/apache.

Generally it requires a change on the dns end as well as adding a name based
virtual host.

How can I automate this process?

How can I give every user on the site a subdomain as their username?

Please let me know

Thanks,
Mandy.

RE: [users@httpd] Creating subdomains on the fly

[AJ McKee <aj...@druid-dns.com>]

Apache makes this easy,

 

See http://gentoo-wiki.com/Apache_Modules_mod_vhost_alias for an example
config, you will be pleased.

 

 

Re: [users@httpd] Creating subdomains on the fly

[Krist van Besien <kr...@gmail.com>]

On Jan 29, 2008 6:17 PM, Mandy Singh <ma...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Generally it requires a change on the dns end as well as adding a name based
> virtual host.

You need a "wildcard" DNS entry. After that no more DNS manipulation is needed.

Krist

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