Gary King — Sun, 05 Sep 2004 03:15:56 +0000

okay thanks

heebiejeebieclu — Sat, 04 Sep 2004 12:29:38 +0000

go to http://www.hotscripts.com and type in myLounge. This is a thing to create your own subdomains

openmind — Sat, 04 Sep 2004 08:48:17 +0000

TBH the solution that Andy has come with is the best one. I too have used a simple script in CF that works in exactly the same way and works great with a * sub-domain.

It's the easiest and simplest way to do it without mucking with IIS in my case...

Gary King — Sat, 04 Sep 2004 01:29:58 +0000

Wouldn't using mod_rewrite in .htaccess also work just as well, though?

brady.k — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:25:41 +0000

yea i knew it was shared...i was just saying

alright, i'll give it a try. thanks.

andy206uk — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:40:31 +0000

no... and since you don't have your own webserver I very much doubt your hosting provider will let you muck about with the httpd.conf anyway. (a virtual server is just a chunk of shared space on an existing server).

brady.k — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 14:05:13 +0000

ok thanks

will that be more of a pain than actually editing the httpd.conf file?

andy206uk — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:19:57 +0000

I couldnt wait... something like this should get you started:

<?php

$host = $_ENV['HTTP_HOST'];

$subdomain = explode(".",$host);
$subdomain = $subdomain[0];

$sql = "SELECT * FROM `database` WHERE username = '$subdomain' LIMIT 0,1";

//etc, etc, etc...

?>

of course... you'll have to do some checking to ensure that:

a) they've entered the subdomain.
b) the subdomain isn't www.
c) the subdomain is a valid user

in all of these circumstances you'll have to redirect to your default homepage, but a simple if statement will sort that one for you.

andy206uk — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 08:54:38 +0000

Then the first way I suggested should work, as long as your hosting provider can set you up a wildcard subdomain. to do that they need to setup a wildcard a record in your dns *.yourdomain.com and then setup the hosting account the sameway. That's something you may have to ask nicely for.

Once they've done that for you, let me know and I'll give you some example code.

brady.k — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 18:00:50 +0000

Well, I'm going to have my own virtual server...but not dedicated. I know it's Linux based, but past that I don't know.

Its more along the lines of the hosted content is what I'm looking for.