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Wildcard VirtualHosts
I was wondering if/does VirtualHostX will support wildcard domains?
ie. hello.site poiints to /site/public_html/ but world.hello.site points to /site/subdomains/world/
Can do it at the moment (sorta) by creating a new virtualhost for each subdomian, but it's messy.
ie. hello.site poiints to /site/public_html/ but world.hello.site points to /site/subdomains/world/
Can do it at the moment (sorta) by creating a new virtualhost for each subdomian, but it's messy.
I’m hopefull
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Inappropriate?Wildcard domains are something I've toyed with in the past, but I've never been able to make work in OS X properly.
In theory, you could create a virtual host like this:
<virtualhost>
VirtualDocumentRoot /Users/<username>/Sites/%0.0/
and then setup a wildcard DNS in your /etc/hosts file like this
127.0.0.1 *.site
and then every mysite.site and mysite2.site, etc would map to the appropriate folders.
I've done that on Linux machines in the past, but OS X seems to ignore the wildcard DNS entry, which is key. Based on this hint
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.ph...
I think you could accomplish it by setting up a local name server on OS X, but I've never tried.
I guess that's a long way of saying that VirtualHostX could help you set it up if the OS allowed it. I'm open to suggestions if anyone else has a better idea of how to make it work :-)</username>
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Inappropriate?Thanks for the quick response Tyler!
I half expected you to tell me something like this. Nevermind - was just asking in case. Maybe Mac OS X will start behaving itself in the future - here's hoping anyway.
I’m satisfied
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