how should I implement dynamic subdomains?

[ted leslie]

different port number? why? visitors from offices with firewalls with only 80,443 open will not be 
able to reach your sites.

tl

On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:42:27 -0400
Yanni Chiu <yanni-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Thanks. That's a lot easier than what I was thinking about - run a DNS, 
> update the DNS records, then refresh.
> 
> I think that I will still have to update/refresh the Apache2 
> configuration (using a2ensite), since I want to serve each new domain on 
> a different portno. These servers would be started/stopped on demand. 
> Any suggestions on this aspect? Otherwise, I'm thinking that I need to 
> write a few scripts.
> 
> 
> ted leslie wrote:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcard_DNS_record
> > http://allyourtech.com/content/articles/25_11_2005_setting_up_wildcard_subdomains_on_apache.php
> > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/358
> > 
> > tl
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:32:37 -0400
> > Yanni Chiu <yanni-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> On some sites (e.g. foobar.com, for illustrative purposes), you register 
> >> a new user (e.g. trythis). A bunch of stuff is done behind the scenes. 
> >> Then you end up at a brand new subdomain called trythis.foobar.com
> >>
> >> I want to implement something like this on a Ubuntu server with Apache2. 
> >> Does anyone have any pointers on how to go about doing it?
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