Wildcard sub domains?

Posted February 21, 2013

Hi there, can anyone explain to me exactly what I need to do to set up sub domains / wildcard sub domains? ie. What I need to do to the DNS and Apache?

Thanks in advance, Francis PS. On an ubuntu vps

Francis McNamee

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Jonathan Tittle • February 21, 2013

If you’re not using a control panel, then you’d simply create an A entry using * as the entry instead of a name and then setup .yourdomain.ext in your Apache vhost configuration. So for your vhost, something such as the following should get you going. <VirtualHost 99.99.99.99> DocumentRoot /path/to/home/folder … ServerAlias .yourdomain.ext ServerName www.yourdomain.ext CustomLog domlogs/yourdomain.ext combined … </VirtualHost> The ServerName & ServerAlias are what you want to pay attention to. The … are just in there for separation and should not be added to your vhost configuration. For your WildCard DNS entry, it should look something like: .yourdomain.ext. 14400 IN A 99.99.99.99 - OR - 14400 IN A 99.99.99.99 It depends on how your registrar allows you to enter DNS records.

xxrelativityxx • February 5, 2014

Im thinking you just setup DNS and then you just need to tell apache the different sites with virtualhosts

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