How to let PHP to create subdomain automatically for each user?

Question

How do I create subdomain like http://user.mywebsite.com ? Do i have to access htaccess somehow? Is it actually simply possible to create it via pure php code or I need to u

Answer 1

Don't fuss around with .htaccess files when you can use Apache mass virtual hosting.

From the documentation:

#include part of the server name in the filenames VirtualDocumentRoot /www/hosts/%2/docs

In a way it's the reverse of your question: every 'subdomain' is a user. If the user does not exist, you get an 404.

The only drawback is that the environment variable DOCUMENT_ROOT is not correctly set to the used subdirectory, but the default document_root in de htconfig.