Automatic sub domain creation

[John Clegg]

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to check how people are doing automatic sub-domain assignment these days. 

eg. I have an app that has creates a new sub domain when some one signs up. eg. mysite.blahhq.com and the next guy signups and creates fubar.blahhq.com and this gets forward to the write part of the application.

My googling has told me that I can do some clever apache / nginx rules to do this. I'm trying to figure out how to do it automagically with no manual intervention.

Any advice is much appreciated.

Cheers

John

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John Clegg

[James Harton]

Hi John.

This is covered in the "Rails routing from the outside in" Rails Guide:  http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#request-based-constraints

[James Stradling]

Hi John,

One basic strategy is to create wildcard subdomain, e.g. *.blahhq.com, serve your app on *.blahhq.com and use the subdomain component of the URL to serve the correct content to the visitor.

Something like this: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1512-how-to-do-basecamp-style-subdomains-in-rails

James

On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 11:00:02 AM UTC+12, John Clegg wrote:

[Wei Feng]

also a railscasts on that
http://railscasts.com/episodes/221-subdomains-in-rails-3?view=asciicast

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