Sub Domain Catch-all

[mvpzone]

Folks

I wanted to know if any of you have experiences in setting up a catch all sub-domain. To give an example:

1. I have a domain ****

2. I want all requests to *.**** to land at www.****

 

I thought i could handle this via a rewrite rule (simplified)

 

#To redirect any subdomain to www

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mydomain\.com [NC]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$

RewriteRule ^/(.*) *****/$1 [L,R=permanent]

 

Added this to my .htaccess at my docroot and does not seem to work. Any pointers...

 

Cheers

[purplespider]

Don't know much about .htaccess but could using a Redirect rule work? Such as "Redirect *.**** ****" (Along those lines anyway, don't know the correct syntax)

 

James

[mvpzone]

Looks like i am not in luck. In my Cpanel i see that i have an option to redirect at resource level

 

http://****/foo.html ----> http://****/bar.html

 

I do not see a possibility to set it up at sub-domain level.

 

i do not want to create any sub-domain just want to catch requests to any sub-domain and route them to www.****

 

I tried creating a sub-domain with name * and it failed with an exception that stated could not resolve this to an IP

[TCH-Rick]

I did note that you submitted a Help Desk ticket and the alias was set for you on the server. Please note that if you make any changes to subdomains through CPanel it will break the alias.

[mvpzone]

Thanks for the addtional tip Rick. I do not have any plans to create an additional sub-domain yet. Nevertheless i will keep this in mind when i intend to create one.

 

Does this mean when i have to create a dedicated sub-domain, i will not have a working catch-all or is it that the manual intervention on the server will have to be redone (to function for the non-existent sub-domains).

 

Cheers.