Laravel - CNAME + Subdomain Routing

Question

I have my routes set up as follows:

 \'{username}.u.\'.env(\'APP_DOMAIN\'),
], function () {
    Route::get(\'/\', \         


        

Answer 1

This has been answered, at least partially, by myself here: Creating a route in Laravel using subdomain and domain wildcards

In short, you cannot make the whole domain a parameter in the routes file. Instead, you assign a middleware that will check the current domain, match it against your pre-defined list of allowed user domains and based on that - take some decision (eg. what method to hit in your controller).

Consider:

Route::group([
    'middleware' => 'domain-check',
], function () {
    Route::get('/', 'FrontendController@handle');
});

And then in your FrontendController:

public function handle(Request $request)
{
    // Information about the current user/domain is here
    $request->client;

    // An example - let's imagine that client object contains a view ID
    return response()->view($request->client->view);
}