RE: [PHP] implement yourname.mysite.com redirection

You can also do this via a PHP script, which is what I do. I have 5 URLs all going to the same site (500 megs disk space). I parse the subdomain, and re-driect to the appropriate sub-directory. Actually, you don't even need to parse the URL for sub-domain. Just search for the "yourname.mysite.com" as a string in the database and then re-direct. You don't needt vitual hosts to accomplish this. HOWEVER, you do need access to your DNS so that you can create A and CNAME records therein. -----Original Message----- From: Adrian Murphy [mailto:adrian.murphy@2020tourism.com] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 3:48 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] implement yourname.mysite.com redirection Hi, I'd like to implement a system whereby people have a subdomain on my site like so: yourname.mysite.com I've been reading the apache docs that say you can do this via virtual hosts. Can I do it so 'yourname' can be anything - where all requests are sent to the same page where i can parse the uri and query a db based on 'yourname'. any reason why my isp might be reluctant to do this.I'm presuming I can't do it via .htaccess? as a side note what are the affects of this kind of redirection as far as search engines go.I've heard that doing this kind of thing on a 404 page is a bad idea.