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No, it's not a typo.

My question is quite simple: I've read on how to set up subdomains on
apache using the wildcard mask, but what about subdomains several
levels deep?

Do I need to create one DNS entry for every "subdomain level" so to
speak?.

Lets say I currently have... whatever... "cool.com" (then I'd sell it
;-). No I mean... lets pretend I have something like "cool.com". With
"traditional" apache wildcard subdomains setup and the right entries
on bind, I can have "anything.cool.com" "a.cool.com" "b.cool.com", etc
all pointing to the same web page.

But what if I want to do a hostname in the form
"http://This.bind.is.really.cool.com"? That's 4 levels of
subdomains.

Can someone explain me how to setup something like this, both form the
apache and bind sides??

Regards
Willy
PS: I'm posting this same question to the bind newsgroup since this
involves setting up correctly both daemons.

Quote:> No, it's not a typo.

> My question is quite simple: I've read on how to set up subdomains on
> apache using the wildcard mask, but what about subdomains several
> levels deep?

> Do I need to create one DNS entry for every "subdomain level" so to
> speak?.

> Lets say I currently have... whatever... "cool.com" (then I'd sell it
> ;-). No I mean... lets pretend I have something like "cool.com". With
> "traditional" apache wildcard subdomains setup and the right entries
> on bind, I can have "anything.cool.com" "a.cool.com" "b.cool.com", etc
> all pointing to the same web page.

> But what if I want to do a hostname in the form
> "http://This.bind.is.really.cool.com"? That's 4 levels of
> subdomains.

> Can someone explain me how to setup something like this, both form the
> apache and bind sides??

Depends how you want to manage it. The host "this.bind.is.really.cool.com"
could also be referred to as host "this.bind.is.really" in the domain
"cool.com"

Adding multiple subdomains in the manner you're talking about only really
becomes cost effective if you think you'll end up with dozens (or more)
hosts in the "really.cool.com" namespace, if you've only got two or three
then just keep it flattened in the "cool.com" domain.

JJ

Quote:> No, it's not a typo.

> My question is quite simple: I've read on how to set up subdomains on
> apache using the wildcard mask, but what about subdomains several
> levels deep?

> Do I need to create one DNS entry for every "subdomain level" so to
> speak?.

This shows how to use a wildcard for DNS:
http://www.acmebw.com/askmrdns/archive.php?category=81&question=208

From the apache end, unless you want it to point to a default, you would
need to properly address ServerName and/or ServerAlias for any specific
vhosts.

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