Well, Hi! I'm developing a Free Web Hosting Site. And I'm stuck, so pleease help, if you can and if you want! :)
Every user will have the feature to add one or more subdomains to his account. For example, if the site is called: thehost.com, a user might want to create two subdomains: sub1 and sub2. So, he should be able to use the File Manager to manage his created subdomains and see the results at sub1.thehost.com and sub2.thehost.com. Now, in my File System I would like to structure the directories in the following way: users/Superman/sub1/ users/Superman/sub2/ Where Superman is our username (He added the two subdomains noted above). The problem: How to do this? I've read much about the htaccess files and I found several solutions: Solution 1: To Write a perl program, which connects to the database, and selects path for a given virtualhost. The RewriteMap of the htaccess will execute the perl program and for the subdomain sub1, it will SELECT vpath FROM vhosts WHERE vname = "sub1". It will return: users/Superman/sub1/. The htaccess will substitute and everything works fine. Now, I don't like this, because if everytime we access sub1.thehost.com, we make a select query, the mysql server (yes, i'm using mysql) will die in pain for sure. Solution 2: Don't give the users feature to add subdomains, but when a user is created, we created a subdomain called superman.thehost.com. Now, this will work fine, because we only need the 'superman' subdomain name to find out where is our 'superman' subdomain path. This solution I would not like to use. Please, If you know how to deal with this problem, tell me. I've pointed out two solutions, but if you know a third one....better one, please let me now. Thank you in advance...
