What hosts allows wildcard subdomains?

Hello,

Is there any shared host that allows wildcard subdomains? Or do I need a special kind of host (reseller, vps etc)?

I want any possible subdomain to point to the same folder in my account. My site will have a subdomain for every registered user (eg: user.domain.com).

Thanks

 

Can't say I have played around with them for a while, but as I recall, you should be able to use them and add them yourself on any host using cPanel. Just create a subdomain of *.yourdomain.com and it should work automatically.

 

@Wswd,
I have tried this on two different hosts and it doens't work.

 

q7m, did you add a corresponding A record in your DNS like:

* 300 IN A IP.IP.IP.IP

If you didn't, then it probably won't work, and you'll get a DNS resolution error for fdjalfjdklasjfdklsjfsa.yourdomain.com (e.g.)

 

Hmmmmmm...I'll play around with it on one of our servers and see what I can come up with.

 

@zacharooni,
I've found a similar method in a tutorial, but it was 14400 instead of 300. It didn't worked. I will try your method.

Thanks to you and to WSWD!

 

It worked via CPanel. Just created a subdomain named * poiting to public_html/

It is not working on all hosts. The one that worked is a reseller account at ResellerZoom.

If you know any other hosts that allows wildcard subdomain please let me know. I need to host my new project on a new host.

 

Just tested it out. Works on our hosting without any difficulty. Like you said, just add * pointing to public_html or any other directory, and it will work. Perhaps they specifically disabled it on the other hosts? Not sure.