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:

[Geographic2]

Good luck contacting Overgrow. Lol.

[error_22]

Hi,

I really want this to work but for some strange reason it doesn't. I have Wildcard DNS for my domain.

I don't get any errors or something, it simply doesn't work. any ideas?

Thanks
Niklas

[T3MEDIA]

darn was told about this but it seems outdated. Erwin do you have the adjustments you did. Are you willing to put them up?

I was asking about something just like this. For latest vb.