Wildcard / Catchall Subdomains. How do i make them ?

[Abdullah.Ahmed]

I want to create a wildcard subdomain where
if the user types a subdomain which i have not created like asdasdhkjq1.mydomain.com then he /she gets redirected to the main page (mydomain.com/default.aspx)

However i still wanna make it so that the url remains asdasdhkjq1.mydomain.com in the address bar.

I tried making a A record like this

A * xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx but it shows a plesk page saying no domain have been setup on this address or something.

Anyhelp ?

 

[Abdullah.Ahmed]

Let me be more specific.

I setup an A record via plesk such as this.

*.dilchasp.com. A 64.61.14.109

that IP is exclusively used by my site. So i was hoping to have all subdomains go to the same page (dilchasp.com/default.aspx) where i can then access the url and do the magic on it.

However that does not seem to work. It takes me to a default plesk page (eg http://sldkjajds.dilchasp.com).

Is there anyway to make that record point to a proper site ? Do i need to configure IIS for that ?

 

[JackL]

First of all:
1. Host Names (or 'labels' in DNS jargon) were traditionally defined by RFC 952 and RFC 1123 and may be composed of the following valid characters.
A to Z ; upper case characters
a to z ; lower case characters
0 to 9 ; numeric characters 0 to 9
- ; dash
Therefore you A record is simply ignored
2. Just make site you want all users to be redirected default for that IP (Plesk CP->Server->IP addresses->on IP address row click host and select default site for that IP)
3. On another IPs you can also set default site and create redirection to your desired site

John S.G.