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Creating a personal URL for all users to my site

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In your apache vhost definition (vhost.conf or whatever you have configured), create a wildcard alias

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName   mysite.com
    ServerAlias  *.mysite.com

Then when the user hits your page, parse their URL (using parse_url()) to provide the correct login page/get their attempted username etc. Don't forget to duplicate the alias to your *:443 VirtualHost definition if you need to.

Andy 2010-03-26 13:42:28

is there a limit on how many users it can have?

Sinan 2010-03-26 14:37:41

How would I maintain this URL user.mysite.com throughout the users session. I mean they can move from different pages in their user area.

Abs 2010-03-26 14:39:23

@Sinan no limit

Andy 2010-03-26 15:24:55

@Abs do you mean they move between different subdomains? Set cookies like this http://www.jotlab.com/2008/04/08/howto-get-cookies-across-subdomains-php/

Andy 2010-03-26 15:25:44

@Andy I mean the user stays within the same subdomain, but goes to pages like user1.mysite.com, then user1.mysite.com/1 then user1.mysite.com/2. I am trying to work out how this will work in my mvc framework.

Abs 2010-03-26 15:56:16

I don't want actual subdomains, just the perception that a user has their own subdomain -would the ServerAlias server this purpose and not create or think these domains actually exist. Would I have to do anything with the my DNS setup to make use of this?

Abs 2010-03-26 15:57:04

@Abs the domain is `mysite.com`, subdomain is X in `x.mysite.com`. MVC is on `mysite.com`, X is an alias for `mysite.com`. DNS setup is the same, create `*.mysite.com IN A 123.123123.123`

Andy 2010-03-26 16:15:19

Ah I see- thanks Andy :)

Abs 2010-03-26 16:16:57

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