Use username to create subdomains

[abhilash0000]

i just wanted to know if its possible to give a user name a page like
[username.example.com...] as his personal home page or his user page in my site

[edited by: engine at 11:16 am (utc) on Jan. 28, 2008]
[edit reason] Please use example.com [/edit]

[lammert]

Yes, this is possible. What you need to do is add wildcards to your DNS server, and to a virtualhost section of your httpd.conf. I have a similar setup for one of my domains. I have wildcard subdomains that can be accessed via subdomain.example.com.

In the DNS server, I have added the following two records:

example.com. 86400 IN A 111.222.111.222
*.example.com. 86400 IN CNAME example.com.

You need the following setting in Apache httpd.conf:

<VirtualHost 111.222.111.222:80>
ServerName www.example.com
ServerAlias *.example.com
# other settings
</VirtualHost>

[abhilash0000]

thanks a lot for u r reply ill check it soon is this the way blogger.com operates they give under the subname rite...?

[phparion]

how about doing it in real time on a shared hosting? you might have seen on many social networking websites, that as soon as you register you get your homepage url which is a subdomain of the site based on your username.

[abhilash0000]

ya i have actually worked on it but i was informed tat if u divide u r domain name in such way u mite decrease the site ranking tats y i asked is this is the way blogs ne blogger.com is created

[phparion]

did you check the page rank of hi5, myspace and multiply.com kinda websites?

[abhilash0000]

ya i checked them so its not a problem if i give out blogs or userpages on the subdomain names is it?

[jdMorgan]

No it's not a problem. And the main domain benefits from all those 'home page' links in each subdomain, too. :)

For more info on this subject see the "Mass Virtual Hosting" section in the Apache URL Rewriting Guide [httpd.apache.org], and search this forum for "rewrite subdomains to subdirectories" and similar phrases.

Jim

[phparion]

thank you J, I found the answer to my question from the link you had given. I also found the solution of a problem this forum has :P

visit [webmasterworld.com...] and [webmasterworld.com...] and you will see the first shows 404 error :)