[UPHPU] wildcard DNS & web roots

[Fred Larsen]

On Apr 24, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:

> I am trying to set up wildcard DNS and web roots for developer  
> sandboxes, like this:
>
> *2.*1.dev.example.com ➞ /home/*1/sites/*2/htdocs/
> *2.*1.dev.example.com ➞ /home/*1/sites/*2/htdocs/
> *2.*1.dev.example.com ➞ /home/*1/sites/*2/htdocs/
>
>
> Where *2 is a project and *1 is a username, like this:
>
> www.jdoe.dev.example.com ➞ /home/jdoe/sites/www/htdocs/
> blogs.jdoe.dev.example.com ➞ /home/jdoe/sites/blogs/htdocs/
> test2.jdoe.dev.example.com ➞ /home/jdoe/sites/test2/htdocs/


Just need to add a CNAME to the dns record for *.dev.example.com.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond     %{HTTP_HOST}                             [^.]+\.[^.]+ 
\.dev.example\.com:[^.]+$
RewriteRule     ^(.+)                                   %{HTTP_HOST} 
$1                  [C]
RewriteRule     ([^.]+)\.([^.]+)\.example\.com(.*)       /home/$2/ 
sites/$1/htdocs$3

We have used this for years and it works great.  Because, any time I  
want to start a new project I can just create a directory in my home  
directory and it becomes newdirectory.jdoe.dev.example.com and I don't  
even have to restart apache.

Fred