MVC url Rewritting somthing like http://controller.website.com

Question

Hello,

Using MVC. Is there a way to make any url like .Mysite.com to point to mysite.com/user/

as in http://marwan.mysite.com to point to mysite.com/user/marwan

The controller is user and the action is index which takes marwan as its variable.

One idea i had is to make a custom error page to handel 404 and see if the url starts with somthing like *.mysite.com and redirect to the proper controller. However i am sure there must be a better way to do this!

Answer 1

Take a look at this answer it may help you out.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2262/asp-net-url-rewriting

You can try the following:

RewriteConf %{HTTP_HOST} !^mysite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$    http://mysite.com/user/%1$1
RewriteRule ^/user/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)\.mysite\.com/(.*)  http://mysite.com/user/$1/$2 [NC,L]

What this rule does is first insert the host into the URL path and then strip out the correct values from the host and write it the way you want on the backend.