Internal Name Server?

rulian

Question for you geniuses.

I'm doing stuff with mod rewrite and I want to set it up on my local server for development. I know I can uses host files to point domain names to my server's local IP.
Now with mod rewrite i want to create fake subdomains.

so I need variable.myinternalwebsite.com to point to my server without changin my host files for every new thing.

How do I do that?

Roger_Ramjet

Sorry, I'm not following you. 'Fake subdomains'???

rulian

I want to use mod rewrite to redirect

http://somevariable.mydomain.com
to
http://www.mydomain.com/handler.php?variable=somevariable

I've seen it done on sites like deviantart, dmusic and others, I'm not having problems with the actual mod rewrite, just the fact that I want to do this on my local machine. Which has no DNS, I can use my window's host file to point mydomain.com to the machine's local IP address but the host file will not resolve subdomain.mydomain.com to the same IP

Roger_Ramjet

here it is in a nutshell

rulian

Thanks roger but after much attempt I think its not apache that is the problem.
Since this is all in an intranet, I have to use my window's host file to point a domain to a specific internal IP.

The problem is window's host files dont allow for wildcards,
so when I can point
192.168.2.x to mysampledomain.com
it wont recognize test.mysampledomain.com to resolve to 192.168.2.x

I have a Ubuntu server setup to an IP, but i'm guessing I need to have that server as my primary DNS and an external server as my secondary DNS. so that if I request anything with mysampledomain.com it resolves to that computer first?

Anybody done DNS routing with linux, i'm not a linux guru

Shrike

Hi Rulian. You would need to have some local DNS server that you can add your domain names to. I'd guess it's likely that you are using your ISP for DNS (on Ubuntu, probably /etc/resolv.conf).