[SOLVED] Subdomain URL's

[The Little Guy]

Can I make a file, so that when my page reads a URL like:

 

somedomain.hostbox.us

it reads it into a file like this:

hostbox.us/readFile.php?url=somedomain

 

 

another way:

somedomain.hostbox.us/somedir/mypage.php

and it reads it into a file like this:

hostbox.us/readFile.php?url=somedomain&page=somedir/mypage.php

[revraz]

Should be able to do that with .htaccess if you have access to it.

[The Little Guy]

I do!  Want to point me in the right direction?  I can not figure out how I would do this.

 

I have searched high and low on google, and I can not seem to find anything out.

 

Please Help!

 

Thanks.

[PHP_PhREEEk]

Setting up some sort of custom subdomain situation seems to be your focus right now. Honestly, these types of things are handled by Apache, and you really should take this to the appropriate board if you want the best help with it...

 

PhREEEk

[The Little Guy]

What might actually be a better Idea, If possible, would be to make user1.hostbox.us be a root directory in here, where user1 is the root:

 

users
  |
  +-- user1
  |
  +-- user2
  |
  +-- user3

[The Little Guy]

Setting up some sort of custom subdomain situation seems to be your focus right now. Honestly, these types of things are handled by Apache, and you really should take this to the appropriate board if you want the best help with it...

 

PhREEEk

 

I don't have access to apache, only Htaccess, and custom php ini files.

[PHP_PhREEEk]

If you have a hosting package, your package either comes with x number of subdomains or not. If not, and you create them anyways, you would likely be violating your TOS with your hosting company. If you have access to .htaccess, .htaccess IS a document used by Apache, so it is an Apache issue...

 

PhREEEk

[rarebit]

There was an article last week on here explaining how to do this using mod_rewrite from a .htaccess file

[The Little Guy]

OK, I will agree with that.

 

I have unlimited domains/subdomains. But... I don't think I want to use "Actual" subdomains, I would just like to use "Fake" subdomains, if that is possible.

[The Little Guy]

There was an article last week on here explaining how to do this using mod_rewrite from a .htaccess file

 

Any links to it?

[rarebit]

mmm, I did a quick search for any post's with 'subdomain' in the title, only in the past 21 day's. Only three result's, so I looked for you and guess what, found it!

 

topic,170713.0.html

 

 

[The Little Guy]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.hostbox\.us
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$  viewFile.php?user=$1 [L]

 

I tried that, and all I get is a "Server not found" error on this: http://test.hostbox.us/

 

viewFile.php does exist, and it contains this text:

<?php
echo $_GET['user'];
?>

 

Any Ideas?

[revraz]

This was the first result searching google for htaccess subdomains

 

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum92/3555.htm

[The Little Guy]

OK, here is what I have now!

RewriteEngine On

Options -MultiViews

#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}!^/sd_
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}!^www\.hostbox\.us [NC]
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.hostbox\.us
#RewriteRule (.*) /sd_%1/$1 [L] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.hostbox\.us
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ([^.]+)\.hostbox\.us [NC]
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteRule ^http://(.*)\.hostbox\.us$ http://hostbox.us/viewFile.php?user=$1 [L,R]

 

basically it works, the problem is that it only shows the root folder tree of my hostbox.us folder. It isn't loading viewFile.php in the background anyone know why?

[The Little Guy]

Boink.

[The Little Guy]

Looks like I got it!!

 

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

# Fix missing trailing slashes.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.)?hostbox\.us$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?([^\.]+)\.hostbox\.us$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%2%{REQUEST_URI}/ -d
RewriteRule [^/]$ %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L]

# Rewrite sub domains.
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.)?hostbox\.us$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?([^\.]+)\.hostbox\.us$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ subdomains/%2/$1 [QSA,L]