Managing subdomains

Question

What are the best practices and solutions for managing dynamic subdomains in different technologies and frameworks? I am searching for something to implement in my Django project but those solutions that I saw, don't work. I also tried to use Apache rewrite mod to send requests from subdomain.domain.com to domain.com/subdomain but couldn't realize how to do it with Django.

UPDATE: What I need is to create virtual subdomains for my main domain using usernames from the site. So, if I have a new registered user that is called jack, when I go to jack.domain.com, it would operate make some operations. Like if I just went to domain.com/users/jack. But I don't want to create an actual subdomain for each user.

Answer 1

You may be able to do what you need with apache mod_rewrite.

Obviously I didn't read the question clearly enough.

As for how to do it in django: you could have some middleware that looks at the server name, and redirects according to that (or even sets a variable). You can't do it with the bare url routing system, as that only has path information, not hostname info.