Creating Vanity domains

[ashley]

thanks for all great responses,

I am trying to automate this process so that it can be done automaticly when
a user creates a subsite under the main domain like freeservers.com and the
like.


"ashley" <amccoy at ains.net.au> wrote in message
news:9v4do0$pjj at pub3.rc.vix.com...
> Problem: To create anyname.domain.com to reslove to www.domain.com/anyname
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> I know that a
> *        A    1.2.3.4
> record will resolve anyname.domain.com to www.domain.com
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> The question : will Bind map a request for particular part of the site to
a
> direcory within the site so that I can create username1.domain.com and
> username2.domain.com as seperate websites or should I make the * A record
> and use the HTTP header to redirect the request?
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