Dynamic sub domain with mod rewrite

JanoF · Joined: 30 May 2006 Posts: 43

I'd like repair rewrite record
from http://www.domain.tld/index.php?mforum=xxx
on http://xxx.domain.tld/
He knew could somebody help???

dcz

Well, this is something a bit harder to achieve than just standard mod rewrite.

First your DNS server must accept wildcards. Meaning, you want your DNS server to redirect *.example.com to the same folder.

This is usually only possible with dedicated servers, and not under all installation. Apache and Bind are good to use here.

And there is a possible copyright issue, because, one can create a sub domain by just posting a link to it, like http://registered-brand.example.com.

So you must check what's going on here when you start playing with such settings.

The minimum is to make sure you check the sent vars (here the subdomain name) are ok before you do anything with it, you don't even want to show your index on those, better a warning page and a mail sent to you to react (eg implementing rules to disallow the use of all sensible subdomain name that would have been tested).

So you'd better think about it before you go for it, because you will need good skills to properly manage the new possibilities given by a DNS wild-carding setting.

And since it's not something to put on in one day, I prefer to talk a bit more before posting some code.

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