Dynamic Subdomains

[Spangoo]

Hi All,

I am still getting my head round htaccess and am hoping that someone can help.

I want to set it up so that for example example.spangoo.com will load spangoo.com/?p=example.

I have tryed alot of different variations to try and get this to work and am getting no where ... is there any other server settings need changed so it will work???

code i have is

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.spangoo\.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ([^.]+)\. spangoo\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?p=%1

I am doing this on a Blacknight VPS running Debian

 

[louie]

Have you setup the DNS for the sub-domain?

 

[Spangoo]

yeh i think its set up right

*.spangoo.com. A 78.153.208.204

???? ... just gettin a 500 Server Error

 

[louie]

No that's not right
you need to be specific

A record example.spango.com 78.153.208.204

 

[Spangoo]

thats not very dynamic ... is * not a wildcard???

see i have confused myslef cause the way its sittin is as above and example.spangoo.com is workin but directing at the plesk no site at this address page rather than a 404, and the main spangoo.com is going nuts on a server error

 

[louie]

Dynamic subdomains in htaccess

It seems your server goes in a loop

 

[Spangoo]

yeh thats what i mean ... have done everything that they did and it is working i think, but the subdomain is still displaying the "no page defined" page ... would it have anything to do with the httpd.conf file?

 

[louie]

When I work with sub-domains I usually have the folder created and don't just go for the root index page.

If you setup the DNS as I told you above, you might need to wait a little while to propagate properly...

 

[mneylon]

The wildcard would be the way to do what you want, but if you're getting an error there's obviously something wrong.

As you're on a VPS you have full access to the server logs, so I'd recommend checking the apache error logs to see what it's logging as it throws the error

 

[Spangoo]

will have a look and see if i can find the apache log

thanks for the help guys, will post what i come up with if I can figure this out.

times like this i wish i had me a nice simple single hosting account, lol ... bloody servers

 

[Spangoo]

i was sort of right, the httpd.include needs edited and a vhost.conf file needs created

i found this: How-To setup a wildcard DNS record for dynamic subdomains in Plesk 8 [Archive] - 1and1FAQ.com

i was doing pretty well untill the last 2 bits, i have no idea how to run those commands, i dont have a clue about ssh or server comands or any of that!