Because I like to play with a lot of projects and code, I create subdomains for oprsteny.cz for almost every project. Instead of going through the hassle of creating a CNAME or A record for every subdomain, creating an Apache vhost file and enabling it and creating the necessary directory structure, I figured there\u2019s an easier way to do so.<\/p>\n
First thing I had to do was to create an *.oprsteny.cz wildcard record for my domain. This way, I don\u2019t need to create a DNS record every time I need a new subdomain. When this is done, I checked for the record for example using\u00a0 Once that\u2019s done and it\u2019s pointing to my server, I need to create an\u00a0Apache<\/a>\u00a0vhost which handles the requests with\u00a0mod_rewrite<\/a>, which is a rules-based url rewriting module for apache, and can easily handle different subdomains and actions based on the subdomain.<\/p>\n I was replacing the domain name, IP address and paths with my own, and I had a directory structure like this:<\/p>\n Apache vhost (stripped version):<\/p>\n This way, you can just create a directory like Because I like to play with a lot of projects and code, I create subdomains for oprsteny.cz for almost every project. Instead of going through the hassle of creating a CNAME or A record for every subdomain, creating an Apache … Continue reading dig<\/code>, and I saw something like this:<\/p>\n$ dig *.oprsteny.cz\r\n# .. skipping some output\r\n;; ANSWER SECTION:\r\n*.oprsteny.cz. 3600 IN A 192.0.32.10<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\/var\/www\/oprsteny.cz\/\r\n\/var\/www\/oprsteny.cz\/www\/\r\n\/var\/www\/oprsteny.cz\/subdomains\/\r\n\/var\/www\/oprsteny.cz\/subdomains\/<any subdomain>\/<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
<VirtualHost *:80>\r\n ServerName oprsteny.cz\r\n ServerAlias *.oprsteny.cz\r\n DocumentRoot \"\/var\/www\/oprsteny.cz\"\r\n\r\n RewriteEngine on\r\n # Rewrite everything for oprsteny.cz to the\r\n # \/www\/ subdirectory\r\n RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^oprsteny\\.com\r\n RewriteRule ^(.*) \/www\/$1 [L]\r\n\r\n # Rewrite all other *.oprsteny.cz subdomains\r\n # to their own directory\r\n RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^\\.]+)\\.oprsteny\\.com\r\n RewriteCond \/var\/www\/oprsteny.cz\/subdomains\/%1 -d\r\n RewriteRule ^(.*) \/subdomains\/%1\/$1 [L]\r\n<\/VirtualHost><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\/var\/www\/oprsteny.cz\/subdomains\/blog\/<\/code>\u00a0to make\u00a0http:\/\/blog.oprsteny.cz\u00a0work. Easy like that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"