The subdomains shouldn't take any time to propagate, they should start working instantly. Its when you setup a brand new 2nd level domain (Foo.com) that it can take a while to propagate.
When I did this before we dynamically wrote out zone files for the 2nd level domains, and used a wild card for the subdomains. For Apache we just modified one of two apache include files we setup, one for subdomains and one for full domains. I looked at doing it with a rewrite but it didn't work well for us for some reason. Maybe something to do with the logging or something. -Ryan Robert Rawlins wrote: >> Hello Chaps, >> >> We've been working on some ideas for our new reseller panel and one >> things which really attracts me at the moment is making the panel they >> sign-in to brand able. >> > > I've started so I'll finish ;-) I had an itchy trigger finger this morning. > > Now in the most part a brandable panel is very simple, allowing users to > change the colour scheme, logo and headings in the site is all no problem at > all. > > One thing I have seen done in other applications is the dynamic creation of a > subdomain for each user which registers on the server, they can then access > the login for that site from that domain, for instance, someone comes and > registers with me, and they then have access to their branded panel through > thiername.thinkbluemedia.co.uk and they don't have to come through our site. > > Not only this but they can also mask that subdomain with their own domain > such as control.resellersdomain.com or whatever it might happen to be making > things even more seamless for the clients which they are reselling too. > > Now I would assume that the latter part requires them to add CNAME records to > their own DNS records and is out of my control, however, the first part is > not. > > How would you guys go about creating these subdomains? presumably I don't > want to actually create records in my own domains DNS settings as these would > take 72 hours to propagate so can I perhaps do this with some type of URL > rewrite? or perhaps a wildcard subdomain and I then use server side code CGI > scope variables to to display the correct branding? > > I'd appreciate your thoughts on this guys, > > Rob > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:320446 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
