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July 2nd, 2008, 06:20 AM

Krypton

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mod_rewrite - Wildcard DNS dynamic subdomain

Hey there.

Hopefully somebody can help me, i want it so when people goto dynamicuser.domain.com it redirects them to there profile page e.g. the profile pages are stored in public_html/user/dynamicuser.php and i want it so when a user goes to dynamicuser.domain.com it redirects them to the dynamicuser.php file (thier profile).

I've experimented with alot of different codes but none so far have worked, i have wildcard dns enabled also so i was wondering if anyone has any ideas

THanks

July 2nd, 2008, 07:50 AM

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Welcome to Dev Shed.

Did you search the forums or even page one of the current list of threads in this forum? There's an answered request for something similar about ten or twelve posts down. Start with that, add the MOD REWRITE sticky in this forum, modify for your needs, and post what you come up with.

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July 5th, 2008, 05:58 AM

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Sorry that was my first post.

I read through the mod_rewrite sticky and looked at a couple of other posts and have come up with this -

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks 

RewriteEngine On 

RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$ 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^\.]+)\.tutorialwave\.com$ [NC] 
RewriteCond %1 !^(www|ftp|mail)$ [NC] 
RewriteRule .* /profile.php?username=%1 [QSA,L]

When i try this it comes up with 'Internet Explorer Cannot Display This Page' and the URL shows as

josh.tutorialwave.com/user/user/user/user/user/user/user/user/user/user/josh.php

Not sure why this is happening!

July 17th, 2008, 09:11 AM

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You said you wanted it to go to /user/$name.php, but your RewriteRule is rewriting to /profile.php?username=%1 ... is there a typo there or something?

When a user access foo.domain.com, do you want to redirect to domain.com/user/foo.php or rewrite to foo.domain.com/user/foo.php?

August 5th, 2008, 12:57 AM

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This is my final solution which works!

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.tutorialwave\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?([^\.]+)\.tutorialwave\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ /user/%2.php [QSA,nc]

December 29th, 2009, 12:08 AM

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im trying this way and its not really working for me. I want to make subdomains based on usernames on my site. It will be pulling them from a mysql database, table/username field.

Right now i have a script that calls profiles as /profile.php?user=$1

im trying this code below to make the subdomain but its not working, any ideas?

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mysite\.net$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?([^\.]+)\.mysite\.net$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ /profile.php?user=$1 [QSA,nc]

December 29th, 2009, 02:12 AM

seanincali

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what works for me on windows/apache 2.2 is

# .htaccess in DocumentRoot (Apache 2.x)
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.site\.net$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?([^\.]+)\.site\.net$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.site.net/profile.asp?user=%2 [L]