mapping ~user dir to subdomain

Strixy · 06-18-2005, 09:19 PM

My apologies if I've posted this question in the wrong forum.

I am trying to figure out how to map

/home/u/~user/public_html

such that each user will have his/her/its own subdomain eg

user.mydomain.com redirects to /home/u/~user/public_html/

I have DNS set as such

*.mydomain.com directs to the main http server box mydomain.com

mydomain.com works great (I heart Apache)

I have configured several virtualhosts that are currently working, ie. I have successfully created

user1.mydomain.com and user2.mydomain.com by hand. They work fine.

Is there a way to avoid having to do this by hand?

eg.

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerName mydomain.com
	ServerAlias *.mydomain.com
	DocumentRoot /home/*/~*/public_html
	<Directory /home/*/~*/public_html>
		Options FollowSymLinks
		AllowOverride None
	</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Of course, when I try something similar to the above and restart Apache I get the error
"Directory /home/*/~*/public_html Does not exist" or something to that effect.

Thank you very much, indeed.

stefan_nicolau · 06-19-2005, 08:15 AM

You could create a script to generate the virtualhost sections, put them in a separate file, and include it from httpd.conf.
I'm not sure what the script should be, but it must be simple...

RandomLinuxNewb · 06-19-2005, 06:24 PM

This looks like it does exactly what you need.http://www.snert.com/Software/mod_vd/ or http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_vhost_alias.html

Strixy · 07-03-2005, 11:46 PM

The vhost alias was exactly what I needed. I had a big headache getting it to work, however, as I knew I had the mod - I didn't, however, double check to see if it was *enabled*!

My bad.

All works fine now.

For future reference, this is a *very basic* code for the file:

/etc/apache/sites-enabled/default

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerName *.domain.com
	ServerAlias *.domain.com
	VirtualDocumentRoot /home/%1/public_html  
</VirtualHost>

###Your distro may use different user directories!!

check
/home/user
/usr/share/httdocs
/var/www/usr/htdocs
etc...