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yourname.vbulletin.com (Subdomain Redirection) · **Released**: 02-04-2003

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.

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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:

Erwin · #22 05-18-2003, 01:08 PM

This is a very cool hack.

I am using this with Velocd's custom HTML page hack, to give my users a custom webpage... very cool.

Dean C · #23 05-18-2003, 02:07 PM

Hey i forgot about this hack

Unfortunately i can't use it as i already have a service set up using postnuke for subdomain homepages

- miSt

Koutaru · #24 05-18-2003, 04:11 PM

I'm still pondering over whether I should use this for the member profile or the custom page

Or maybe both

Erwin · #25 05-18-2003, 08:48 PM

I've modified this hack quite a bit now - moved code to member.php, added stuff to .htaccess, modified the custompage hack.

You have a choice of 3 URLs to use:

username.domains.com OR

www.username.domains.com OR

www.domains.com/home/username

I've made it so that instead of basing it on the userid, it is based on the username, so .htaccess cloaking works.

gmarik · #26 06-09-2003, 05:18 PM

Erwin,
Can you tell me how did you do that:
www.domains.com/home/username?
It's what I was thinking of the last two days...

AmericanWoman · #27 10-21-2003, 02:19 PM

Erwin, are you planning to release your modifications as an update or add-on to this hack? I'd really love to see them.

Going to install the base version of this on my dev site tonight and see how it goes...

Thanks to all the hackers who've worked on this!

colicab-d · #28 02-08-2004, 08:59 AM

just about to test this on a vbulletin 3 site, theres no code changes to vb so it should work ok

will let u all know

M1th · #29 02-10-2004, 05:53 PM

Hmm, what if there are two usernames like "Member 1" and "Member_1" what would happen then?

MarkB · #30 02-11-2004, 02:18 PM

How could you get this to work with forum names?

influence · #31 04-01-2004, 01:33 PM

can someone port this over to vb3.0 please

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