How to create subdomain(s) dynamically for user registration?

ujwalarali85

When each new user tries to register, a directory on the server will create for her/him. (www.example.com/user_name)
but as you know I need her/him directory to be available as follows too (http://user_name.example.com/).

I have Linux Server.It's not a local project, so the _conf file of Apache Server may not accessible at all. I need a working .htaccess code etc. or something else.

Dormilich

look at the mod_rewrite cheat sheet. it's one of the examples there.

Markus

Hm, I strongly doubt you can do that without having access to the server configuration.

Dormilich

.htaccess can do it. (I know because I use it)

Markus

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Originally Posted by Dormilich

.htaccess can do it. (I know because I use it)

Care to give an example? I looked through that link you supplied, but couldn't find anything on 'faking' a subdomain.

TheServant

I found this a while back, but never tried it out:

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 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.domain\.com$

RewriteRule .* http://domain.com/somescript.php?var=%1 [R,L]

The reason I didn't try it out is because "you need to set up foo.domain.com's DNS entry to go to your server's IP address. Also you need your server properly configured to show the contents of domain.com's DocumentRoot when foo.domain.com is requested." - Sounded like work, but I might give it another go now that I know more. Let us know how you go!

Markus

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheServant

I found this a while back, but never tried it out:

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 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.domain\.com$

RewriteRule .* http://domain.com/somescript.php?var=%1 [R,L]

The reason I didn't try it out is because "you need to set up foo.domain.com's DNS entry to go to your server's IP address. Also you need your server properly configured to show the contents of domain.com's DocumentRoot when foo.domain.com is requested." - Sounded like work, but I might give it another go now that I know more. Let us know how you go!

Which requires access to the server configuration.

Mark.

dragosXI

hello - I found this thread and I search do to something similar
so I want to show online users that I get them from xml source and it show like that

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<?

    default :

        $xml_source = 'http://www.site.com/xml/users.xml';

        $site_url = 'http://www.site.com/users/';
 
// ---- if we got some data, then try to parse it

if ( $xml_content = file_get_contents( $xml_source ) ) {
 
    $xml_parser = xml_parser_create();

    xml_parse_into_struct( $xml_parser, $xml_content, $value, $full_index);

    xml_parser_free( $xml_parser );
 
    $items = array();

    foreach ( $value as $current_value ) {

        if ( $current_value['level'] == 3 ) {

            $items[] = $current_value;

        }

    }

    reset( $items );
 
    $item_count = count( $items );

    $users = array();

    for ( $i = 0; $i < $item_count; $i += 2 ) {
 
        $current_user_name = each( $items );

        $current_category = each( $items );

        $users[ strtolower( $current_category['value']['value'] ) ][] = $current_user_name['value']['value'];
 
    }
 
    // ---- If we got category parameter, then show just that part of the array

    if ( isset( $_GET['category'] ) && !empty( $_GET['category'] ) && isset( $users[ strtolower( $_GET['category'] ) ] ) ) {

        $category = $_GET['category'];

    }
 
    if ( $category !== null ) {

        $category = strtolower( $category );

        $new_users = $users[ $category ];

        $users = array();

        $users[ $category ] = $new_users;

    }
 
    // ------- OUTPUT

    if ( $table_output ) {
 
        // ---- how many users should be in one column

        if ( $users_count = count_users( $users ) ) {

            $max_rows = ceil( $users_count / 7 );

        } else {

            $max_rows = 0;

        }
 
        echo '<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">' . "\n";

        echo '    <tr>' . "\n";

        echo '        <td valign="top">' . "\n";
 
    }
 
    $current_user_number = 0;

    foreach ( $users as $current_category => $users_in_category ) {

        sort( $users_in_category );
 
        // ---- in "table_output" mode we don't need category name.

        if ( ! $table_output ) {

            // ---- Print category name

            echo $current_category . ' (' . count( $users_in_category ) . ')<br>' . "\n";

        }
 
        foreach ( $users_in_category as $current_user ) {
 
            if ( $table_output ) {
 
                // ---- if the user count is bigger than the allowed number in one column, then we break the list into a new column

                if ( $current_user_number > $max_rows ) {

                    $current_user_number = 0;
 
                    echo '</td>' . "\n";

                    echo '<td valign="top">' . "\n";
 
                }
 
            }
 
            echo '<a href="' . $site_url . '' . $current_user . '" ><span class="user_name">' . $current_user . '</span></a>' . "\n";

            if ( $show_category_name ) {

                echo '&nbsp;<span class="user_category">' . $current_category . '</span>';

            }

            echo '<br>';
 
            // ---- increase user count in the current column

            $current_user_number++;
 
        }
 
    }
 
    if ( $table_output ) {
 
        echo '        </td>' . "\n";

        echo '    </tr>' . "\n";

        echo '</table>' . "\n";
 
    }
 
} else {
 
    echo 'Error while trying to open the XML file.';
 
}
 
/**

 * Count all the users in the users array

 *

 * @param array $users_array

 * @return int

 */

function count_users( $users_array ) {
 
    $ret = 0;

    if ( is_array( $users_array ) && count( $users_array ) > 0 ) {
 
        foreach ( $users_array as $current_category => $users ) {

            $ret += count( $users );

        }
 
    }
 
    return $ret;
 
}
 
?>

this will show online users like

http:// www . site.com/users/user-name

and I want to show the online users like

http:// user-name.site.com

Can anyone help me sort this out ?

thank you

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