third level domains?

Anon

Is it possible for PHP to make 3rd level domains like username.domain.com? I want to make it so that when someone registers with my site, they get some type of shortcut like username.domain.com that basically redirects to their directory domain.com/members/username/ (i think that's how they work?).

Possible?

Anon

If you have apache configured correclty each user on your system gets his own public_html fir in there home dir E.G. /home/newuser/public_html and then to access that you can type domain.com/~newuser getting php to write all the pasword files and execute the adduser scripts for your system is the tricky part. then you need to make sure that they have very limited permisions or you could get some bad vibes from the scripts they make.

Anon

Well, I'm not really giving people webspace (so I don't have to worry about scripts they make). I just want username.domain.com to go to their "site profile" (if this is a redirect to a directory then domain.com/members/username/). Don't really want domain.com/~username/...

Anon

hmmm well i am sure there is a way but i dont know how.

-Jon

Anon

it can be done at the directory or folder level with mod_rewrite.....
I've seen/done it.

I'm sure you could do this with php...

Anon

Yeah, you can do it. There is several ways you could go about it.

First, make sure that your index file can be a php file, and then add a if statement (or a switch if there is alot of them) to check the variable $HTTP_HOST. Most of the time, it will be www.yourdomain.com or just youdomain.com. Now, depending on where they want to go, do a meta-tag refresh to go to their /directory/.

Or, if you want to get fancy, you could set up a more complicated script that would include files from their directory so you couldn't even tell where the files are really stored.

Oh, and this will only work if you can do wildcard domains (ie, anything.yourdomain.com will arrive at your index)

Let me know if this helps!

Jeremy Lounds
Focus Enterprises

Anon

Sounds great ... With your info, I'm thinking about making it so that maybe on my index i can do some stuff and check if the referer variable is username.domain.com and then if it is, redirect to domain.com/members/username/ else display the index page

I'll see if my webhost has wildcard domains supported or do you know what file to edit if there is one?

Anon

It depends on what kind of software you are using for a web server AND for DNS. My friend who helps me out alot with server stuff setup BIND for DNS, and I installed Apache for the web server. For Apache, make sure you have a 'ServerAlias' set up something like this: 'ServerName yourdomain.com', and on a different line, 'ServerAlias *.yourdomain.com'

Hope this gives you enough to go on!

Jeremy

Anon

For Apache, you need have a 'ServerAlias' Yes,
However don't you also need to configure "Bind" as well in the bind.cfg

Or in the "DNS" control when running NT?