Sub domain creation on the fly with DNS Bind
Using Cpanel/Whm - I had to set up bind to accept any subdomain. In the /var/named folder there are a bunch of *.db files. Find the appropriate file for your domain. Set it up to look something like this:
$TTL 14400
@ 86400 IN SOA ns1.yourdomain.com. email.domain.com. (
2006090901 ; serial, todays date+todays
86400 ; refresh, seconds
7200 ; retry, seconds
3600000 ; expire, seconds
86400 ) ; minimum, seconds
yourdomain.com. 86400 IN NS ns1.yourdomain.com.
yourdomain.com. 86400 IN NS ns2.yourdomain.com.
yourdomain.com. IN A 72.232.86.10
localhost.yourdomain.com. IN A 127.0.0.1
yourdomain.com. IN MX 0 yourdomain.com.
mail IN CNAME yourdomain.com.
www IN CNAME yourdomain.com.
ftp IN A 72.232.86.10
* 14400 IN A 72.232.86.10
Restart bind. If this alone doesn’t work, apache’s config might need to be adjusted. Let me know.
- James
On 7/27/07, Shad wrote:
James - what method are we using for dynamically creating subdomains on excite?
Are we just modifying DNS records/bind?
Didn’t we do this somewhere else as well?
I know with keysem we modified the apache config file where the virtual domain entries are located.
