Wildcard Subdomains

Question

I know there have been a few threads on this before, but I have tried absolutely everything suggested (that I could find) and nothing has worked for me thus far...

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Answer 1

First, I want to allow users to publish pages and give them each a subdomain of their choice (ex: user.mysite.com). From what I can gather, the best way to do this is to map user.mysite.com to mysite.com/user with mod_rewrite and .htaccess - is that correct?

You may be better off using virtual hosts. That way, each user can have a webserver configuration pretty much independent of others.

The syntax goes something like this:

    DocumentRoot /var/www/user
    ServerName user.mysite.com
    ...