Neverside

ask em why?

Its a simple BIND setting, tell em if they need help to use google ;)

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sorry i want to know if this method will work in local server ? im using xampp package. i dont know where the setting of wildcard DNS. i want to try it out in my local server. can you help me BigToach ?
i tried to activating virtualHost in httpd.conf but it doesnt work when i put the subdomain..:S
thanks and sorry if i bother you

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the simple answer is no. I'm sure there is a way to do it, I just dont get why you would want to. It was intended to be in use with a domain name.

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bcos i want to apply this to my upcoming site. while i dont have broadband connection, the only thing i can do is develope the site in my local server.
you know, you can have domain in your local server (like http://www.domain.com instead of localhost) so i was just wondering if it would pe possible to do this
but yeah thanks for the hook up

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Last edited by DigitalDream, November 14th, 2005 07:27 AM (Edited 1 times)

well just code everything else, just dont use that one small peice until you make it go live

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I've got something even easier. All you need is wildcard DNS, and that any missing sub-domains under your domain redirect to the www sub-domain (default).

PHP:

<?php

function user_key($host) {
  $parts = explode('.', $host);
  return $parts[0];
}

echo user_key($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);

?>

When you go to that script under rad.example.com, the function will return "rad". And when you go to scott.example.com, it will return "scott". See how easy that is? I have it in action at my site:

http://whatever.d.yayforgecko.com/user_key
http://rad.d.yayforgecko.com/user_key
http://scott.d.yayforgecko.com/user_key

(d.yayforgecko.com is a real sub domain, which mirrors my development box's web root. This works fine with normal domains.)

By the way, yes, you can test this on your local box.

Movie: http://yayforgecko.com/subdomains.mov

You can't have it totally dynamic; just a set of specified keys. To set it up, open your hosts file. This page shows you where you can find it. Once it's open, add a line like this:

Code:

127.0.0.1 rad.local.dev

The "rad.local.dev" can really be anything you want. Just remember the first "subdomain" will be the user key. Feel free to add multiple lines if you want. Save the file, and see if it works by going to http://rad.local.dev/. If it does, continue on to the next step: setting up a catch-all in Apache.

Open up your httpd.conf file, and find the section that discusses the <VirtualHost> directive. Once you get there, put in something like this:

Code:

<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot "/www/pages"
</VirtualHost>

Change /www/pages to wherever you want the document root to be. Now just access the server under http://rad.local.dev/, and the user key function will always return rad. I'm not sure of a way to make it a wildcard on your local machine, so you're going to have to stick with a single username for now.

Last edited by Rad, November 15th, 2005 05:17 AM (Edited 6 times)

Yeah that way works really well for really simple stuff because it is handled actually in the script and not inside of apache.

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Good stuff Rad, you make things look easy.

oh Rad thanks a million you save me ! >_< i'll try this now

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