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subdomain for each user profile

nathannathan
edited July 2006 in Vanilla 1.0 Help
Is it possible to have a subdomain (or an apparent subdomain) for each user on a Vanilla board? I think it would just be a htaccess issue, but I have never really used it before and don't know if it is possible.

i.e. nathan.mydomain.com -> would point to my user page.

Thanks.

Comments

  • Jefftheman45Jefftheman45
    Well, YTMND does it, so it's certainly possible, but I would imagine your httpd.conf/.htaccess would get pretty cluttered up.
  • BergamotBergamot
    The main issue with that is that the account page does not currently take a username as a parameter, so while you could certainly translate http://nathan.mydomain.com to http://www.mydomain.com/people.php?user=nathan , it would have no idea what to do with that.

    It is probably easy to make it accept names instead of id numbers, but then you have to get your hands dirty.
  • lechlech ✭
    you would also probably need to reconfigure your dns for wildcarding under the circumstances or at least find a way to trick the server into thinking that the subdomain exists in the first place.
  • BergamotBergamot
    Sorry yeah I just tend to do that by default.
  • noinfo.denoinfo.de
    Hmm there is a pretty "hacky" sort of way to do it. I once tried a similar thing. I just modified the 404 error page (using .htaccess to specify a custom one) to be a php script that redirects to a different page. I did that quite a while ago and don't remember too well, but I was able to extract some information using the $PHP_SELF variable - which should still point to what the user entered - in your case profilename.mydomain.com. You could then parse that string and extract the part in front of "mydomain.com" and redirect to "http://www.mydomain.com/people.php?user=profilename" using this little php instruction: header("Location: http://www.mydomain.com/people.php?user=profilename"); BUT: Please consider this to be a rather dirty way, even though it might just work. I stopped using the method because Internet Explorer does not display error pages by default but replaces them with its own error page - so this might not work in IE...
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