Adding Custom Pages as Sub Domains with Content From Some Sections

[Heath]

Hello,

I found a Tabs mod for vb that I would like to use. I was trying to create simple pages linking to chosen forums and sub forums. For instance. I would like to have sports.mydomain.com in this I would like 2 seperate tabbed content items with the latest forum posts from each of those sports categories.

If possible I would also like to add some sort of RSS feed to that as well. If that is more complex then existing mods capabilities then the tabbed content with the latest from each forum & sub forum would be fine. I would also like a menu on the side with each section. that is basically all.

Is this possible with any current mods?

[p0lar_bear]

In order to have a sudomain system like that, you host needs to to be able to support Wildcard DNS.

Also, to set it up yourself, you need an understanding of Apache's mod_rewrite module, .htaccess files, and regular expressions. It's by no means easy, and I'm having difficulty understanding this myself; there's a whole site about it at http://www.modrewrite.com/.

Your goal is to use mod_rewrite to internally change the uri from http://sports.mydomain.com/ to http://mydomain.com/forums/index.php?tab=sports (or something of the like), and also have it append all other variables (such as forum IDs, post IDs, etc) to the uri as well.

If your host cannot support or set up a wildcard DNS for you, then an alternative is to go about rewriting http://mydomain.com/sports/.