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jetty wildcard subdomain

I want to use wildcard subdomain on Jetty *.mydomain.com I have found that Jetty supports normal virtual hosts http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/Virtual+hosts I have also seen such configuration in Apache using mod_proxy or mod_rewrite Can I do this directly without Apache ? If yes, will I need to setup a DNS server like bind9 to do wildcard subdomains ? If no, how can I configure Apache with Jetty and will this affect Jetty's NIO performance ?

Buying SSL certificate for only one subdomain? [closed]

Is it possible to buy an SSL certificate for only one subdomain? I mean I have no certificate on mydomain.com but I want to use one on sub.mydomain.com. Do I have to buy for both main domain and subdomain?

Dynamic Subdomain Handling in a Web App (Flask) [closed]

I'm going to be using flask to create a web application, and part of the application will involve a subdomain (for example, user1.appname.org).

I'm not sure how to go about creating these subdomains dynamically in the flask configuration, or how to deploy them to a production server.

What is the best way of doing this?

Virtualhost For Wildcard Subdomain and Static Subdomain

I have an odd situation where I want to have the urls app1.example.com, example.com and *.example.com all using a different virtual host. This is what I have (excluding example.com cause it just makes it messier)

<VirtualHost *>
  ServerName app1.example.com
  ServerAlias app1.example.com

   DocumentRoot = /var/www/app1
   # Other configuration for this app here

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
  ServerName wildcard.example.com
   ServerAlias *.example.com

   DocumentRoot = /var/www/wildcard
   # other configuration for this app here

</VirtualHost>

The problem is that they conflict. Whichever one is listed first wins out. How can I host both a wildcard virtualhost and a specific one?

Note: I'm not just changing DocumentRoot in the config, so using mod_rewrite to change the DocumentRoot variable does not fix it.

Thanks

Is a wildcard SSL cert neccesary if all sub-domains point to the website root

I am completely new to SSL certificates and need to purchase one pretty soon. There seems to be a huge price increase when sub-domains come into play.

My question is this :

I have my site set up so that username.domain.com is rewritten via htaccess to domain.com?user=username

If I have my web site set up so that all sub-domains are virtual and point to the same location, do I need to buy a wild-card SSL Cert?

Any help would be much appreciated, Thank you.

How to create an SaaS Application?

I don't know how else to say it so I'm just going to explain my ideal scenario and hopefully you can explain to me how to implement it...

I'm creating an application with the Zend Framework that will be hosted with DreamHost. The application will be hosted on its own domain (i.e. example-app.com). Basically, a user should be able to sign up, get their own domain sampleuser.example-app.com or example-app.com/sampleuser which points to, what looks like their own instance of the app, which is really a single instance serving up different content based on the url.

Eventually, I want my users to be able to create their own domain (like foobar.com) that points to sampleuser.example-app.com, such that visitors to foobar.com don't notice that the site is really being served up from example-app.com.

I don't know how to do most of that stuff. How does this process work? Do I need to do some funky stuff with Apache or can this be done with a third party host, like DreamHost?

Update: Thanks for the advice! I've decided to bite the bullet and upgrade my hosting plan to utilize wildcard subdomains. It's cheaper than I was expecting! I also found out about domain reseller programs, like opensrs.com, that have their own API. I think using one of these APIs will be the solution to my domain registration issue.

Dynamic creation of subdomains

I'm creating a website using MVC framework (Yii) and I need to dynamically create subdomains, i.e. http://company.website.com

So, in order to achieve this I've added a DNS wildcard (*.website.com). Now the problem is that my application controllers are all the same for www.website.com and for company.website.com. For example, I have a User controller with Register action (user/register). Now if I go to www.website.com/user/register I can register, but I can do exactly the same if I go to company.website.com/user/register. And this behaviour is the same for all my controllers.

I realize everything is working correctly, but how do I separate controllers for www.website.com and for compnay.website.com? I don't want users to access register/login/other controllers and actions from the subdomian url.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

Using wildcard subdomains with wildcard SSL on Heroku

We have an app recently deployed to Heroku. I think we have hit the wall in terms of our requirements (please make my conclusion wrong ) .

It's a project management app. Management has decided to go for all SSL solution hence we got ourselves wildcard certificate ( *.ourapp.net) from GoDaddy which we added successfully to Heroku under Hostname based SSL. Hostname based SSL requires putting particular CNAME(which needs to be secured) pointed to AmazonAWS url which is given by Heroku. For example , if we wanted to secure var.ourapp.net we will have to point CNAME var.ourapp.net ----> appid42352herokucom-324234.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com [this is example URL)

Since we wanted every first-level subdomain to be secure, we had to put *.myapp.net CNAME pointed to AmazonURL.

But this interferes with our application design where every wildcard subdomain(basic and wildcard domains are already added to the app) needs to be processed such that each customer could get branded URL like customername.outapp.net

Currently DNS is handled by Zerigo tier one.

Please suggest/recommend

Sharing session data to all subdomain codeigniter

I am trying to use one session data for all of my subdomains.

I have created a subdomain in cpanel like this : *.mydomain.in

and my *.mydomain.in uses the same path as my mydomain.in example:

mydomain.in uses path on my server: /public_html/mydomain.in

*.mydomain.in uses path on my server: /public_html/mydomain.in

Now the problem is every time I visit the site it's creating a different session. For example:

I visit mydomain.in .... it creates a session.

I visit example.mydomain.in .... it creates a different session

I again visit mydomain.in ... it creates a different session.

my codeigniter config file:

$config['encryption_key'] = 'MY-SECRET-KEY-HERE';

$config['sess_cookie_name'] = 'ci_session';
$config['sess_expiration'] = 0;
$config['sess_expire_on_close'] = TRUE;
$config['sess_encrypt_cookie'] = TRUE;
$config['sess_use_database'] = TRUE;
$config['sess_table_name'] = 'ci_sessions';
$config['sess_match_ip'] = TRUE;
$config['sess_match_useragent'] = TRUE;
$config['sess_time_to_update'] = 300;

$config['cookie_prefix'] = "";
$config['cookie_domain'] = ".mydomain.in";
$config['cookie_path'] = "/";
$config['cookie_secure'] = FALSE;

Any help or suggestion would be a great help. Thanks in advance.

Public Wildcard Domain Name To Resolve To 127.0.0.1

Is anyone aware of a public wildcard domain name that resolves to IP address 127.0.0.1. For example if I wanted to test a URL locally such as mywebsite.localhost.com or example.localhost.com but I don't have control of DNS settings (hosts file or whatever) then I would use this public DNS to resolve to 127.0.0.1. It needs to be wildcarded so that no matter whatever comes before localhost.com it still resolves to 127.0.0.1.

*.mydomain.com - A record or CNAME?

Some people are saying use an A record and others a CNAME for a catch all subdomain.

Which should I use and why?

Wildcard Subdomain Exceptions

I have a wildcard subdomain enabled and dynamically parse the URL by passing it as-is to my index.php (ex. somecity.domain.com).

Now, I wish to create a few subdomains that are static where I can install different application and not co-mingle with my current one (ex. blog.domain.com).

My .htaccess currently reads:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

Can I manipulate this .htaccess to achieve what I need? Can it be done through Apache?

Route traffic to a docker container based on subdomain

I have wildcard dns pointed to my server e.g. *.domain.com

I'd like to route each subdomain to it's own docker container. So that box1.domain.com goes to the appropriate docker container. This should work for any traffic primarily HTTP and SSH.

Or perhaps the port can be part of the subdomain e.g. 80.box1.domain.com. I will have lots of docker containers so the solution should be dynamic not hard-coded for every container.

Wildcard subdomain on google app engine, alternatives to godaddy domains

I'm building an app on google app engine and have it set with wildcard subdomain mapping: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/domain.html

Next, my domain name is through godaddy and I have specific CNAMEs created for each subdomain I want, such as www: How to use Google app engine with my own domain (not subdomain)?

The problem I'm facing is that I want goDaddy to allow me to have a wildcard CNAME so that I can have any subdomain without having to specifically set the CNAME for it. Such as: ANYTHING.mysite.com

Everything I've researched on the intraweb by the googles has told me I'm out of luck if I wish to do this through godaddy. So what other alternatives do I have? I really like godaddy and all my projects are under one account, so I hate to put this one domain name under some other vendor, but what are my other options?

Automating wildcard subdomain for users GAE

I have an app engine instance project under let's say: cloud.domain.com

My goal is to be able to give a user of my a unique url that they can then map to their own domain using a CNAME record. Basically how you would connect to a domain to a squarespace account.

It could really be anything like so:

userid.cloud.domain.com
userid.domain.com

Is this even possible with GAE? I've researched wildcard mappings but there really isn't any solid advice on the topic.

Is this even possible or should I look elsewhere to accomplish this kind of task?