Do I setup that wildcard within BlueDragon's host? My hosting company is saying that having wildcards in your actual dns entry in the dns server is a no-no because it can be abused.
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Alex Skinner <[email protected]> wrote: > You can setup a wildcard dns a record of * pointing to your server ip then > anything.yourdns.com will work. > > Should just be a case of looking at the cgi.http_host and parsing out the > bit you want then redirecting question is whether you want a temporary > redirect aka cflocation or a 301 ? > > A > > > On Tuesday, 8 May 2012, Jason Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.comto > > 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 > > > > -- > > online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ > > google+ hints/tips: https://plus.google.com/115990347459711259462 > > http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en > > > > -- > Alex Skinner > Managing Director > Pixl8 Interactive > > Tel: +448452600726 > Email: [email protected] > Web: pixl8.co.uk > > -- > online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ > google+ hints/tips: https://plus.google.com/115990347459711259462 > http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en > -- online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ google+ hints/tips: https://plus.google.com/115990347459711259462 http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
