CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Amanda Thompson
Amanda Thompson

Reputation: 79

Create a subdomain automatically

I'm not asking for code, but for some tips. I want to create a system, that automatically create a subdomain, for example, after the payment be approved by PayPal, I create a subdomain, such as: stackoverflow.mywebsite.com

<?php
  // Ignore this code. 
  $createSubDomain = 'stackoverflow.mywebsite.com';
  $createSubDomain = 'stackoverflow.mywebsite.com';
  $createSubDomain = 'stackoverflow.mywebsite.com';
  if($craeteSubDomain !== '') { echo "created"; }
?>

Just that. I guess that I can handle with the content after subdomain creation. :)

Thanks,

Upvotes: 2

Views: 108

Answers (1)

mcky
mcky

Reputation: 843

Here is a pretty good guide. Basically you are going to want to register the * subdomain to point to your server. Then you need to configure your .htaccess file to handle it.

Your .htaccess file should look something like this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourwebsite\.com $
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/yourwebsite_folder/
RewriteRule (.*) /yourwebsite_folder/$1

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(^.*)\.yourwebsite.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/yourwebsite_folder/
RewriteRule (.*) /yourwebsite_folder/$1

If you want to learn more about .htaccess you can look here.

In your php file instead of creating a subdomain you are creating a folder. when people try to load newsub.example.com the .htaccess file points them to example.com/yourwebsite_folder/newsub

Upvotes: 1

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