Wildcard DNS, subdomain, however no shell access to the conf dir

[JHB Oosterlaar]

Hi,

For a project we need to use subdomains. In the default situation one can simple use the subdomain feature that comes with Plesk to create a physical subdomain. However, we are planning to write a dynamic application that offers the same functionality to each subdomain, but in which the content depends on the subdomain used.

This has led us to the obvious conclusion that a virtual subdomain is preferable. However, I have no idea how to achieve this, since every document on this subject instructs to edit a file in the conf directory and I can not access the directory due to restricted permissions.

Is there another way to complete the wildcard DNS configuration using only the Plesk GUI? (I already have added a wildcard A DNS record.)

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To get the full idea, this is the design:

1. Visitor visits one of the virtual subdomains.
2. The visitor is internally redirected to the domain itself through the wildcard DNS configuration.
3. Based on a mod_rewrite configuration, requests to the domain are redirected to a dispatcher script that is part of our application.
4. The dispatcher script extracts the subdomain that was requested and then invokes further logic that makes decisions based on the subdomain.
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Thanks in advance!

Kind regards,

Jeroen

 

[Who-m3]

As long as your provider permits the use of .htaccess apache directives, you should be able to utilize mod_rewrite within it on the main httpdocs folder. This would allow you to enable the parsing script.

 

[basw]

I've got the same issue. I basicly want a catch-all for subdomains, which lead the visistor to the httpdocs-dir.
When I try xxx.domain.nl I'm being redirected to an Apache test-page, instead of the httpdocs directory.

Normally this would be a "domain alias", but I can't create an alias with the same domainname.
I tried to uncheck WWW at "Domain administration", but that only disables the www-alias, instead of making an catch-all wildcard-subdomain.

Any bright ideas?