I'm building an app and I'm curious about the best way to go about adding a 
function. Basically, I want to give users a subdomain they can use as a 
redirect. 

Currently, users will get a subfolder; aka company.com/username

I also want to give them username.company.com

I understand that I'll have to devise a way to update my dns records,but I 
also need for OpenBD to recognize the hostname as well. What's the best way 
of dynamically updating my OpenBD config to add the new hostnames to the 
hostheader list?Can I just set it up with a wildcard so I don't need to 
update anything? 

Next, how would I be able to dynamically point that username.company.com to 
a website that they declare? For subfolders (company.com/username), I just 
parse out the 'username', look it up in a db, and forward users to the url 
in the database. 

aka company.com/openBD could forward to groups.google.com/openbd

This works because the subfolder doesn't actually exist, and when the 404 
error is thrown, I run a script to check if the folder is in the database. 

However, with subdomains, they would just resolve to the site, not a 
specific folder, so I'm not sure how I could dynamically forward users to a 
URL (from a database) just based on subdomain alone. 

Thoughts?

Basically, I want users to get 'username.company.com' and be able to point 
that to any url they want. 

-Jason


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