Subster rejuvenator and wildcard subdomains on CPANEL

freehits · #1 (**permalink**) 04-25-2006, 07:44 PM

I had seen a few of the mods here using Greg Boser's very sweet subdomain mod for wordpress.

Any help getting wildcard subdomains working would be very appreicated.

The particular site is on shared hosting, and is CPANEl and I have webmanager access.

I have tried to follow a few walkthroughs but get lost or am missing somethings.

like where to edit my httpd.conf file.

Trying to get it working here.
http://www.billsbacker.com/billsblog/

need to rip this spammed out forum down and want this blog mod to work in its place.

cyanide · #2 (**permalink**) 04-25-2006, 09:35 PM

How ironic, I just finished setting this up for a client.

Since you are on shared hosting, you will need assistance from your provider.

Two things need to be accomplished
1. The httpd.conf file, looks something like this

Code:

<VirtualHost 123.45.678.9>
ServerAlias domain.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@domain.com
DocumentRoot /home/domain/public_html
BytesLog domlogs/domain.com-bytes_log
ServerName www.domain.com
</VirtualHost>

It needs to be changed to this
(addition highlighted in blue)

Code:

<VirtualHost 123.45.678.9>
ServerAlias domain.com .*domain.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@domain.com
DocumentRoot /home/domain/public_html
BytesLog domlogs/domain.com-bytes_log
ServerName www.domain.com
</VirtualHost>

2. Dns Entry
In the dns area of the server a new entry need to be added.

Code:

*.domain.com. 14400 A 123.45.678.9

freehits · #3 (**permalink**) 04-27-2006, 11:22 PM

I will be using this for a client once it works on my own site and I see how it gets indexed with no dup bugs anywhere.

I am able to add the dns entry, already did, Since I have access to webmanager.

How can I access the httpd.conf?

On webguerillas sites there are references to alot of ways to reach it.
None that I could manage....any insight on a possible way to edit it on my own?

cyanide · #4 (**permalink**) 04-28-2006, 02:01 AM

httd.conf file is an apache config file and you probably wouldn't have access to it, unless you had administrative rights to the server

freehits · #5 (**permalink**) 04-28-2006, 03:14 PM

Appreciate your time CY, I will post my eventual and time consuming success shortly.

How adept are you with this sort of apache rewrite hack, I would love (as would a million people) to make a wildcard subdomain hack for the ASM 2.0 Amazon store manager script. A seperate subdomain for evey product in an amazon feed based store would be a wonder to behold.

Ive been chopping this script up for the last 3 days, and while it is sweet and simple php fun, breakig subdomains by Node (category), or product would be a phenomenal hack.