[RESOLVED] Create sub-domains with PHP?

nickminute

An example would be www.johndoe.blogspot.com

Is this possible? Can somebody provide some insight on the subject?

Thank you.

halojoy

Not that I know of.
But configurating the httpd.conf of Apache server you could setup subdomains.
This is not as difficult as we think.

By the way,
if you have
http://www.blogspot.com/
then the subdomain would be without www, like
http://johndoe.blogspot.com/ ( Actually exists!!!!! 😃 )

www. is used for the ordinary Domain itself

bradgrafelman

If all subdomains automatically redirected to your main website (e.g. your "www" or null subdirectory was setup as a catch-all or wildcard subdirectory), then you could try to use the $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] value to imitate the functionality of subdomains using PHP.

However, halojoy's suggestion of doing this at the webserver level (e.g. the <VirtualHost> directive in Apache) is definitely preferred.

nickminute

And it seemed to almost be working, except for the fact that I was getting a PHP error on line 1 of my script. What do you guys think?

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/content/html/main.html on line 1


<?php

#####################################################################
#  YOU MUST EDIT THE FOLLOWING VARIABLES:
#####################################################################

# Your domain name WITHOUT the "www." NO TRAILING SLASHES ("/")
# Just the actual domain name: "yourdomain.com"


$domain = "domain.com";


# The relative path to your users sites directory, ex:
# if your users directory is installed in yourdomain.com/sites you 
# should enter only $userdir = "sites";


$userdir = "sites";


# The default page that the visitors should be redirected to if
# they don't request a subdomain or they request a non-existing
# subdomain. This page should be your main index page. You can 
# simply rename your existing index.html file to main.html This 
# index.php file must be the default file that users are first 
# directed on your site, so you must remove any other index.html or 
# index.xxx file that may conflict. The main.html page should be
# located in your document root:"http://yourdomain.com/main.html"


$default_page = "main.html";


# Do you want to use frames?


$use_frames = "yes";


#####################################################################
#  CONFIGURATION COMPLETE... DO NOT EDIT ANYTHING BELOW HERE
#####################################################################


$sub = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
$sub = eregi_replace("\.".$domain, "", $sub);
$sub = eregi_replace("www\.", "", $sub);
$sub = strtolower($sub);
$docroot = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];

if (is_dir("$docroot/$userdir/$sub")) {

if ($use_frames == "yes") {

	echo "<html><head><title>$sub</title>\n";
	echo "</head>\n";
	echo "<frameset cols=100%,* frameborder=no border=0 framespacing=0>\n";
	echo "<frame src=http://$domain/$userdir/$sub>\n";
	echo "<noframes>\n";
	echo "<body bgcolor=#FFFFFF>\n";
	echo "<br><br><font face=verdana size=2><center>\n";
	echo "This page uses frames, but it seems that your browser does not support this feature.\n";
	echo "<br><br>To move on, click here: <a href=http://$domain/$userdir/$sub>$sub.$domain</a>\n";
	echo "</center></font>\n";
	echo "</body>\n";
	echo "</noframes>\n";
	echo "</frameset></html>\n";

	exit;

}

else {

	header("Location: http://$domain/$userdir/$sub");

	exit;

}

}

else {


include "main.html";


 }

?>