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[aeonmarky]

Im trying to have a subdomain on the fly created on the fly, but unfortunately i have no success, i tried using mod_rewrite on .htaccess but still no chance.. please help...

[SEATi]

There are 4 steps:

1. Set up an error document in your .htaccess file that redirects every single 404 to a file called maybe redirection.php

2. Add a wildcard DNS record in your zone files, so that [whateverhere].yourdomain.com points to the domain IP.

3. Add a wildcard serveralias in your apache configs by using:
ServerAlias *.yourdomain.com

4. Write the following code in your redirection.php file

<?
$url=$_SERVER["REQUEST_URL"];
$newurl=str_replace(".yourdomain.com","",$url);
$newcomplete="http://yourdomain.com/".$newurl;
Header("Location: ".$newcomplete);
?>

So when someone enters a subdomain, let's say myself.yourdomain.com they get redirected to yourdomain.com/myself.

[aeonmarky]

Thanks for the reply,

The server alias do the trick.. thanks fabio!!!


Best Regards,
Mark

[SEATi]

You're welcome, it's glad to know that info helped

MODS: I guess this thread can be closed