Comments on: Wildcard DNS and Sub Domains

By: Rohit Sethia

Rohit Sethia — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:03:27 +0000

Just to add for all and for Shared cPanel Accounts, you should Add:

UseCanonicalName Off

to your VirtualHost Configuration if it doesn’t Exist.

By: Combining Multiple Wordpress Installs with Wordpress 3.0 « Little Storping-in-the-Swuff

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:38:14 +0000

[...] however http://www.littlestorping.co.uk redirects to littlestorping.co.uk anyway, and some people (eg. Matt Mullenweg) prefer to lose the www anyway. So I’ve changed, but I suspect that one or two plugins and [...]

By: Job

Job — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:31:53 +0000

This could be because this blog post is linked in the WPMU setup (if the installation fails to resolve a random subdomain, it informs you that the wildcard DNS isn’t configured, and refers to this post for detailed explanation).

By: Jonathan Dingman

Jonathan Dingman — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:15:30 +0000

This is still one of the best tutorials I’ve seen around, I am constantly referencing this post to people about how to setup wildcard domains.

Thanks Matt!

By: Curtis Droppelman

Curtis Droppelman — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:24:07 +0000

Looks like I’ve answered my question by finding a great plugin a few hours later.

WordPress MU Domain Mapping
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/

By: Devon_O

Devon_O — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:44:35 +0000

As disappointed as I am by this fact, I just don't get it.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:11:26 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion – this was just copied from my httpd.conf so it was doing something ,but it might have been cPanel specific. I’ve removed those two lines. Crazy that 5 years later people still use this.

By: Rich Bowen

Rich Bowen — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:08:27 +0000

You can’t put User and Group in a block and expect them to do anything useful, so it would be really helpful if you’d remove that from your example configuration, since it’s misleading people who are using this as an example configuration, and expecting that User directive to have an actual effect on the user permissions that the vhost runs with. Thanks.

–Someone who provides user support on #apache.

By: Kevin Paquet

Kevin Paquet — Fri, 02 May 2008 09:40:21 +0000

It’s gonna take me a long long time to understand this, I’m a total noob. I want WP MU installed *sigh*

By: bozhidar

bozhidar — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:44:52 +0000

Actually it is on the spot for me, and it very nicely written THANKS ALLOT!! you saved me some time in configuration something please do continue the nice work

By: Multi User Web Hosting: WPMU From Scratch | Hard Headed Hosting

Multi User Web Hosting: WPMU From Scratch | Hard Headed Hosting — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:32:39 +0000

[...] to WPMU installation. If not, there are notes in the README file, but please note that the link for DNS advice has changed [...]

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links for 2008-01-31@kobak pont org — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:20:08 +0000

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By: George

George — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:57:44 +0000

Great tutorial!

By: Username as Subdomain in Codeigniter at Just a Geek Sitting in The Corner

Username as Subdomain in Codeigniter at Just a Geek Sitting in The Corner — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:58:28 +0000

[...] For wildcard DNS, take a look at this guide by WordPress creator : http://photomatt.net/2003/10/10/wildcard-dns-and-sub-domains/ [...]

By: Corey

Corey — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:46:44 +0000

I know this is old, but I just have to give the Lighttpd equivalent to redirect like did in your httpd.conf since I know a lot of people are making the switch.

$HTTP["host"] =~ “^www\.(.*)$” {
url.redirect = ( “^/(.*)” => “http://%1/$1″ )
}

By: My daily readings 03/29/2007 « Strange Kite

My daily readings 03/29/2007 « Strange Kite — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:02:31 +0000

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By: trisweb.com » archives » New Method for Redirecting to www

trisweb.com » archives » New Method for Redirecting to www — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:57:31 +0000

[...] and testing, is something I’ve never actually seen done before. I got the idea from Matt in this post about Wildcard DNS and redirecting to the non-www version of your domain. Though I’m doing the opposite, the [...]

By: Installing WordPress MU on a CPanel/WHM Server

Installing WordPress MU on a CPanel/WHM Server — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 21:38:12 +0000

[...] If you read the readme, it recommends you to Matt’s blog where he explains how to do so. But to me, it didn’t really help, because he was giving me a bunch of code – I had a graphical web interface for my reseller admin console. [...]

By: Roy

Roy — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 07:38:18 +0000

Matt, any problems with search engines and duplicate content using your method? Seems like it could be a potential problem.

By: rllq

rllq — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 03:41:52 +0000

good information. it was helpful in setting up our wordpress mu (multiple user) version

By: Shout Head :: How to setup multi-blogging with wordpress 2.0

Shout Head :: How to setup multi-blogging with wordpress 2.0 — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 22:53:43 +0000

[...] I am currently hosted on a dedicated server that my friend Jacwright who I worked with on http://www.mystickies.com has generously let me use for my own projects. Rather than have him setup a virtual directory for each subdomain I decided to use I instead setup a wildcard subdomain and using mod_rewrite I have each subdomain point to a folder in my directory. so to create a new subdomain I just create a new folder with the same name and it automatically points there. I am using the name servers at http://www.namecheap.com which is by far the best domain name registrar I have used.Basically the only thing I needed to do was create a C-NAME record for the wildcard * that pointed to my servers IP address.If you use your own name servers try this article on setting up wild card dns with bind. [...]

By: Matt Whitlock

Matt Whitlock — Wed, 03 May 2006 21:24:09 +0000

It’s a little less overhead to do it like this:

Redirect permanent / http://photomatt.net/

That way, you don’t have to involve the whole big regular expression parsing engine. Any URL path beginning with “/” (that would be any URL for that virtual host at all) will be redirected to a URL beginning with http://photomatt.net/. So the URL http://www.photomatt.net/foo/bar.html would be redirected to http://photomatt.net/foo/bar.html.

By: iRafi.com » Blog Archive » Creating Wildcard Subdomains + Controller/Dispatcher

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:47:21 +0000

[...] Some helpful links: haalaaluu.com – Wildcard Virtual Host and htaccess Subdomain photomatt.net – Wildcard DNS and Sub-domains [...]

By: Chirag

Chirag — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 04:10:35 +0000

Found this page googling for “apache wildcard subdomains.” Works perfectly for me. Thanks!

1. I only changed the bind config (/var/named/mydomain.com.db) as you said. No changes to my Apache conf.
2. I have a server with cPanel/WHM. Restarted bind from WHM. That’s all I had to do.

*.mydomain.com/file.php gets automatically forwarded to mydomain.com/file.php and the address bar still shows *.mydomain.com/file.php. Perfect!

Here’s a little code for those who might be using PHP on how to get the subdomain name:

$host = str_replace(array(“www.”, “.mydomain.com”), “”, strtolower(trim($_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"])));

if($host == “mydomain.com”)
echo “Welcome to My Domain.com!”;
else if(strpos($host, “.”) === false)
echo “Dynamic subdomain: $host”;
else
echo “Invalid Subdomain!”

By: Box

Box — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 20:42:44 +0000

Hi,

for those that haven’t solved the http://domain.com redirecting to cpanel page, you just have to add like this:

DocumentRoot /home/photomat/public_html
BytesLog domlogs/photomatt.net-bytes_log
User photomat
Group photomat
ServerAlias photomatt.net *.photomatt.net
ServerName http://www.photomatt.net
CustomLog domlogs/photomatt.net combined
RedirectMatch 301 (.*) http://photomatt.net$1

on ServerAlias just add your domain without the (*) thing and restar httpd done..

Thank you Matt.