Questions tagged [wildcard-subdomain]
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Manage DNS for AWS EB site with hundreds of dynamic subdomains
A Domain Name System (DNS) problem: (also asked on stack-overflow)
I've got an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Beanstalk (EB) site with potentially thousands of subdomains.
Apparently it's not possible to use A-records with AWS, as they do server…

Peter Ponderer
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Wildcard DNS to NOT resolve a specific entry
I have a wildcard DNS on my external service: *.example.com
I have one specific service, that I need to NOT resolve externally, to help a VPN service type connection fail silently.
If there a way to make a specific entry NOT resolve? i.e.…

user1076412
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How to parse and retrieve both subdomain and host name label in Nginx
I'm working with an environment for testing purposes based on a few magento versions over a nginx + php-fpm + mysql stack, i puts each distribution in a different folders and in the nginx vhost config file i'm using the following…

MauroNigrele
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SERVER_NAME vs HTTP_HOST (Nginx + PHP)
I have a catchall server configuration that gets all sub-domains and point them to the same PHP script. There are thousands of sub-domains and they are created dynamically.
The PHP script uses the HTTP_HOST to identify the sub-domain and fetch the…

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Setting up wildcard subdomain on ubuntu 14.04 with a2ensite?
I am using apache on ubuntu 14.04. I set up a wildcard domain for my site but it isn't working how I would like it to. I want
www.example.com --> /var/www/mysite
example.com --> /var/www/mysite
and everything else to go to
*.example.com -->…

Gilberg
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nginx wildcard server_name for subdomain gives index.php 404 error
I've been using this server configuration for wordpress which works great on my local machine:
server {
server_name example.example
root /home/user/sites/example/example/html;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
access_log off;
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MauricioRobayo
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Apache Sub-Subdomains and existing wildcard Subdomain
So I have an existing wildcard DNS A record, and subdomain virtual server setup as follows
DocumentRoot /path/to/code
allow from all
Options +Indexes
ServerName existing.domain.co.uk
ServerAlias…

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DNS failure for wildcard subdomains
I just moved my domains to another hoster, all works ok but just the pages I have
under my wildcard domain seems not to be working / found by the server at all.
What do I need to configure next to just the dns?
What I have now;
// probably I did a…

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How to setup nginx server with wildcard DNS
This is about an sample Rails app that uses subdomains. You can access it here: http://rodrigora.com.br. In this app, you can create site and specify one subdomain for it.
Example:
site: Google
subdomain: gog
This site should be accessible by…

Rodrigo
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wildcard ssl for subdomains
I generate my ssl keys via openssl use this commands:
openssl req -passin pass:3a1b -new -key server.key -out server.csr;
cp server.key server.key.org;
openssl rsa -passin pass:3a1b -in server.key.org -out server.key;
openssl x509 -req -days 3650…

Mohammad Hossein Fattahizadeh
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htaccess - Wildcard subdomains to subfolders
So the idea is that I have:
domain.com/.subdomains/domain1 (2,3,4,etc)
And I want to map:
domain1.domain.com -> domain.com/.subdomains/domain1/
domain2.domain.com -> domain.com/.subdomains/domain2/
But I want it to ignore "www"
I'm doing this…

tommica
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Wildcard on DocumentRoot for virtualhost
i use this config in apache2 for wildcard subdomain and works good :
DocumentRoot /var/www/
ServerName sumdomains.example.com
ServerAlias *.example.com
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/(.*)…

Amir Molaa
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wildcard dns redirect to root as well
I want to setup dns to allow wildcards
eg. xxx.mycompany.com
So I have setup the following dns entry
*.mycompany.com 111.111.111.111
However just visiting mycompany.com does not resolve.
For now I've added an extra entry in for
mycompany.com…

Daniel Powell
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Virtualhost - defning subdomains each with separate folder
I currently have one main domain:
mydomain.com
This is working fine.
What im trying to do is now adding a subdomain through my mydomain.conf file, so that I can have:
sub.mydomain.com
I've tried with the following - however the result of this is…

user1231561
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Configure dynamic subdomains with wildcard
I want to keep some web projects in my local host so my customers can access some webapps I'm developing.
I've got a domain name that is currently mapped to my dynamic home ip. e.g:
demo.mydomain.com -> maps to my currenty ip running apache
What I…

Ricky AH
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