Dynamic Subdomains

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by incdeveloper, Jun 23, 2007.

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    Here is what i need and i dont know how to do it... :)

    I need to be able to create dynamic subdomains.. well to be more exact i need to be able to display information for a given user when i type his id on the subdomain ... so if i type incdeveloper.domain.com he displays my information... how can i do that?, i know i need .htaccess but i dont know how to do it

    thanks in advance
     
    incdeveloper, Jun 23, 2007 IP
  2. agnivo007

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    Its called wildcarded subdomains...
    Done by adding the following DNS record:
    *.mysite.com. A ipnum.ipnum.ipnum.ipnum
     
    agnivo007, Jun 24, 2007 IP
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    To handle those wildcarded subdomains, you can use by example this php script.
    <?
$host = $HTTP_HOST; 
$names = explode(".", $host); 
foreach($names as $name) { 
// change "domain" to your domain and "com" to your TLD.
if($name == "www" or $name == "domain" or $name == "com") { 
continue; 
} 
else { 
$actual_name = $name; 
} 

// $actual_name contains the subdomain.
    PHP:
    Cheers!
     
    DeViAnThans3, Jun 24, 2007 IP