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Subdomain is a domain which is a part of a larger domain. For example, 'sub.example.com' is subdomain of 'example.com' domain.

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How can I programmatically generate Heroku-like subdomain names?

We've all seen the interesting subdomains that you get automatically assigned when you deploy an app to Heroku with a bare "heroku create". Some examples: blazing-mist-4652, electric-night-4641, morning-frost-5543, radiant-river-7322, and so on. It…
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Get the domain name of the subdomain Javascript

How i can get the domain name example.com from the set of possible subdomains sub1.example.com sub2.example.com sub3.example.com using javascript ...?
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Domain doesn't work without `www`

When I type in my domain name like without the www (like http://example.com), it doesn't work and gives error message. However, when I add the www to it (like http://www.example.com), it works. Isn't it supposed to work both ways (with and without…
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In a django web application, how do you give users their own subdomain?

I'm starting a new web app project using Django and Pinax. I want to be able to give my users unique domain names like Wordpress and other sites do : username.wordpress.com. I'm not sure how to approach this with Django, since the url parsing logic…
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Creating subdomains in Amazon EC2

How can I create subdomains on Amazon EC2? Is adding virtual host in httpd.conf is enough.. or any other changes also needs to be done? Thanks
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Free DNS server for Windows XP/Vista/Win7?

I'm currently developing a security solution that should work across domains and as such I need a small private dns server to add various entries to. I could alter the hosts file to achieve the same result but since the hosts file doesn't support…
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Nginx convert subdomain to path component without redirect

The idea is to take incoming requests to http://abc.example.com/... and rewrite them to http://example.com/abc/... That's easy enough to do with a 301/302 redirect: # rewrite via 301 Moved Permanently server { listen 80; server_name…
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PHP Getting Domain Name From Subdomain

I need to write a function to parse variables which contain domain names. It's best I explain this with an example, the variable could contain any of these things: here.example.com example.com example.org here.example.org But when passed through my…
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Cross sub domain iframes and JavaScript

I am working on a CMS site whose domain is: http://www.acmssite.com They have a sub-domain where they store a form system: http://www.forms.acmssite.com I have an iframe on the first that looks at a form in the latter. I need to run scripts to…
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Apache rewrite based on subdomain

I'm trying to redirect requests for a wildcard domain to a sub-directory. ie. something.blah.example.com --> blah.example.com/something I don't know how to get the subdomain name to use in the rewrite rule. Final Solution: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}…
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On heroku, is there absolutely no way to redirect an https naked domain on heroku to it's non naked domain with wwws?

Have a look at this link from the Heroku docs: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/avoiding-naked-domains-dns-arecords#subdomain-redirection The yellow boxes says: Requests made directly to naked domains via SSL (i.e. https://mydomain.com) will…
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IIS 7 SSL for multiple sites with a single IP

I have a single IIS 7 server with a single IP address. Site 1 has an SSL cert for www and Site 2 has a wildcard SSL cert for various subdomains. Both sites use host headers to direct traffic off the single IP address. However, when I try to access a…
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Mailgun messages from subdomain without MX record get rejected by some mail-providers

I'd like to use Mailgun to send e-mails from a web application, sending newsletters as well as transactional mails. I set up a sudomain "subdomain.domain.tld" and configured the DNS as specified on the Mailgun panel, except for the (optional) MX…
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How to get a subdomain using window.location?

If I have a hostname such as: http://sample.example.com and in Javascript I do window.location.hostname, would I get "example.com" or "sample.example.com"? If not, how would I be able to get sample.example.com?
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Wildcard subdomains in IIS7. Is it possible to make them like it is in Apache?

Is this possible to configure IIS7 to achieve the same functionality like Apache has regarding wildcard domains? I'm interested in routing user in ASP.NET web application based on subdomain user used in URL. Something like is described…
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