This is all feasible. I have done it in PHP, and it would be just as easy
to do in CF.
You need to get your DNS setup as you mentioned, to allow all "machine"
names to point to you main IP address.
I'd like to see what you're doing, if you don't mind talking about it, email
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Thanks,
Peter Janett
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----- Original Message -----
From: Eron Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 7:29 PM
Subject: How Feasable Is This?
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I want to set up a site so that anyone can create
> their own custom site URL in the form of
> MY_CUSTOM_NAME.ourdomain.com. In other words, I want
> to be able to take any incoming URL that ends with
> ourdomain.com and send it to a template that looks at
> the machine name portion of the URL and redirects it
> to the appropriate place depending on the first part
> of the URL. The idea is to allow people make a
> website for their company without me having to go into
> Internet Information Server for each new account and
> create a virtual directory for that account.
>
> So the questions are:
>
> 1) Is it a matter of a DNS entry to make it so that
> ANYTHING.ourdomain.com will always be directed to the
> same template? If not, how can this be done?
>
> 2) Are there any problems I should be aware of with
> doing it this way?
>
> I plan to write a small ColdFusion script that will
> then parse the URL and handle the rest from there.
>
> Thanks,
>
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