Mod_rewrite, something.site.com

[squid]

Hey
You know how sites like Newgrounds work, with http://USERNAME.newgrounds.com or http://VARIABLE.site.com and then it takes that word, how's it done?

Presumably it's done with $_GET['variable']; but how would i tell the script that the GET is that string?

Is it with mod_rewrite? A link would be helpful, or even a code snippet explaining, ty.

User goes to http://LOLHI.website.com then page then echo's "LOLHI", because LOLHI is the $variable.

 

[-NC-]

1. you'll need wildcard dns setup, unless you plan on setting up each sub domain yourself.

2. to get the domain name, you'll need $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']

3. to get the first part of the domain, you can convert it to an array:

$domainparts = explode('.',$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']);
echo $domainparts[0];

 

[RickM]

Sounds like your doing a free subdomain hosting kind of thing. I made several of these scripts, e107deluxe.com is one of my creations....its fairly easy to do:

Open your httpd.conf file and where you have the record for your domain all the way down the bottom of the file, find thid:

ServerAlias yourdomain.com

and change it to this:

ServerAlias *.yourdomain.com

Save and exit, then restart apache.

Now use the code posted by -NC- to finish it off!

 

[squid]

Yeah, i should have posted saying i managed it, but I managed it just after NC posted, using his post + some google knowledge

It was for http://somebody.lovescitricsquid.info and a few other similar sites i want to make ^__^

Thanks anyway <3

 

[rafaelrls]

Sounds like your doing a free subdomain hosting kind of thing. I made several of these scripts, e107deluxe.com is one of my creations....its fairly easy to do:

Open your httpd.conf file and where you have the record for your domain all the way down the bottom of the file, find thid:

ServerAlias yourdomain.com

and change it to this:

ServerAlias *.yourdomain.com

Save and exit, then restart apache.

Now use the code posted by -NC- to finish it off!

Very good post Rick, it helped me a lot too.