Hello friends,

 

I have a membership site where members will submit their data and choose a template to display their information. On this site, I want each member to have his own subdomain (eg membername.mysite.com) whereby anybody that enter the subdomain into the address bar will be directed to the template the person has chosen and the member's data will be collected from the database and displayed. A very good example is how articles that are summited are being view on WWW.BLOGSPOT.COM (eg myblog.blogspot.com)

 

Regards

adsegzy

You will first need to get a wildcard set for subdomains in you DNS Zone file *.yourdomain.com as a cname to your main domain

Then its just a case of using a htaccess file to redirect any domains that aren't www or without the www to go to the desired script you want to run to work out the individual username

You will first need to get a wildcard set for subdomains in you DNS Zone file *.yourdomain.com as a cname to your main domain

Then its just a case of using a htaccess file to redirect any domains that aren't www or without the www to go to the desired script you want to run to work out the individual username

 

Am sorry for asking too much, but if you dont mind can you pls give me an example (how to go about coding the DNS Zone file). assuming my domain is www.mysite.com and i want a subdomain for a member named mike to that the subdomain reads www.mike.mysite.com?

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You can't "code" a DNS zone file - If you have access to it with your domain or with your hostings name servers you can do it that way, otherwise you will need to contact your hosting in order to get the record added (ask them to verify that all subdomains will redirect to your site)

 

From there, it's just a case of using the .htaccess file to check if the current host is www.yoursite.com. If it isn't redirect to your script. Something like this as a .htaccess file should work (untested)

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example.com$

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example.com$

RewriteRule .* /path/to/script.php[L]