Set up a domain name that points to a sub domain of a domain?

mdowling

I am creating a content management system where users only need to setup an account and all their information is stored on my server, including pictures, member data, etc...

I want the users to have the ability to use my servers and still have their own domain name, like "mysite.com" -- not "contentsystem.com/mysite/".

How can I make it so when the user goes to "mysite.com" he is actually going to "contentsystem.com/mysite/"? I would still have to register and buy the domain name "mysite.com", but how could I do redirect it to the real address?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Weedpacket

This is a server configuration issue. Consult your web server documentation to see what it says about mapping domains to your document tree, and virtual hosting.

cyberlew15

You Could Use PHP to do this

<?php
$subd = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] ;
$pass1 = str_replace("http://", "", $subd);
$pass2 = explode(".", $pass1);
$subdomain = $pass2[0];
$this_url = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] ;
$this_url = str_replace(".co.uk", "", $this_url);
$this_url = str_replace(".com", "", $this_url);
$this_url = str_replace(".net", "", $this_url);
$this_url = str_replace(".org", "", $this_url);
$this_url = str_replace($subdomain.".", "", $this_url);
if ((file_exists("./".$this_url)) && (!file_exists("./domains/".$this_url))){
	echo "<html>\r\n".
	"<head>\r\n".
	"<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\">\r\n".
	"<title>".$this_url.".co.uk</title>\r\n".
	"</head>\r\n".
	"<frameset rows=\"100%,*\" border=\"0\" framespacing=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\">\r\n".
	"<frame src=\"http://www.yoursite.com/".$this_url."/\">\r\n".
	"</frameset>\r\n".
	"<noframes>\r\n".
	"<body>\r\n".
	"The website for ".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']." can be found by clicking <a href=\"http://www.yoursite.com/".$this_url."/\">here</a>.\r\n".
	"</body>\r\n".
	"</noframes>\r\n".
	"</html>\r\n";
}
if ((file_exists("./".$this_url)) && (file_exists("./domains/".$this_url))){
	$domain_details = file("./domains/".$this_url);
	echo "<html>\r\n".
	"<head>\r\n".
	"<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\">\r\n".
	"<title>".$domain_details[0]."</title>\r\n".
	"</head>\r\n".
	"<frameset rows=\"100%,*\" border=\"0\" framespacing=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\">\r\n".
	"<frame src=\"http://www.yoursite.com/".$this_url."/\">\r\n".
	"</frameset>\r\n".
	"<noframes>\r\n".
	"<body>\r\n".
	"The website for ".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']." can be found by clicking <a href=\"http://www.yoursite.com/".$this_url."/\">here</a>.\r\n".
	"</body>\r\n".
	"</noframes>\r\n".
	"</html>\r\n";
}
if (!file_exists("./".$this_url)){
	echo "<html>\r\n".
	"<head>\r\n".
	"<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\">\r\n".
	"<title>Error</title>\r\n".
	"</head>\r\n".
	"<table width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\">\r\n".
	"<tr>\r\n".
	"<td align=\"center\" valign=\"middle\">\r\n".
	"An Error Has Occurred\r\n".
	"</td>\r\n".
	"</tr>\r\n".
	"</table>\r\n".
	"</body>".
	"</html>\r\n";
}
?>

I made this to deal with such problems and mask url's but still the best way of doing what you suggest would use a more complex system than this :rolleyes: