yourname.vbulletin.com (Subdomain Redirection)

SUBDOMAIN REDIRECTION v.1.0

Goal: Give every user a quick link to their profile or gallery or hacklist. Also add quick subdomains for anything else you want.

Usefuleness: I was jealous of the Yaxay profiles that were automatically assigned to each username.yaxay.com. Then I saw the hack by Minots: vBSubDomains. This did way more than I wanted it to-- I don't need to offer users redirection then have them point "porn.overgrow.com" to some kiddie site. So I duplicated what I thought Yaxay was doing-- and here it is.

REQUIREMENTS:

OK, this is important. I can't help you with these requirements:

Your server must respond to blahblahblah.yourdomain.com by redirecting you to the default domain. If it does not do this already, you must ask your tech support if they can set it up. I did this by asking "Please setup Wildcard DNS for Overgrow.com. I would like *.overgrow.com to point to: /home/overgrow/HTML."

You must be using an index.PHP file as your document root file. Meaning when I hit your dot.com, it is serving me a PHP file. There are other ways around this using .htaccess but they are undesirable as they cause every hit to your main root domain to be processed through an additional php file.

Installation:

-Make sure *.yourdomain.com responds
-Add PHP to your root index.php

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

Speed: Quick

Release: 1.0-- Feb 05, 2003

Hopping bunny: :bunny:

[Overgrow]

>>-Add PHP to your root index.php

"ROOT" should always mean Document Root..

http://www.yourdomain.com/ROOT

So to answer your question, vbhome lite index.php

[corsacrazy]

ok cheers ill let you know how i get on !

[corsacrazy]

nope not workin

i dont think that my *.yourdomain.com responds

2 b able to create a subdomain i have to

) Open your ftp manager up and connect in to your web space.
2) Click the folder mainwebsite_html.
3) In this folder add a new folder.
4) Name the new folder subdomain.yourdomain.com where subdomain and domain and your settings, e.g. forum.eukhost.com
5) Upload your desired files to this folder.
6) View this folder by going to http://subdomain.yourdomain.com, e.g. http://forum.eukhost.com.

[Overgrow]

Yup.. before you even bother trying to install it, be sure to meet the requirements-- your server must respond to ANYNAME.yourname.com with your default page or it won't work. Your tech support may be able to set up Wildcard DNS for you.

[corsacrazy]

wen i goto anyname.mydomain.com it sez HTTP 404 - File not found does that mean my server is respondin lol

[Dolby]

Works great on my guild site (using vbportal).
example: http://dolby.eqgov.com

thanks!
*clicked install*

[PSI|Dr-X]

Works great by me too if someone has probles with 404

You must enable Wildcards :P

[corsacrazy]

ok wildcards enabled ! just w8in 4 the dns to update !

[Lionel]

this is an interesting hack. I wish someones takes over the other hack attempt that tries to give each member its own mini site, by breaking the profile in many pages, and perhaps give them an extra page.

One could always keep the http://membername.site.com on top by placing it in an invisible frame. Any attempt to access regular site could break out of frame.

[N!ck]

THANKS FOR AN AWESOME FEATURE! My users will love it.

See here: http://www.v-driveboat.com/showthrea...s=&threadid=33