Apologies for the rather lame Subject title. I’m developing a new CMS
and want to be able to allow people who sign up to create their own user
account as follows: http://USERNAME.domainname.co.uk
I would be very grateful if anyone has any ideas or working examples of
how to do this on account signup. I have seen websites like fluxiom.com
do something similar. Or indeed if there are other magic ways of doing
something similar to this.
Basically, once users create their account, they will see the website
homepage along with some user specific links at their own address
http://USERNAME.domainname.com. The idea being to make them feel special
with their own user account page. 
Thank you.
Neil.
On Jul 26, 2006, at 3:31 AM, Neil B. wrote:
Apologies for the rather lame Subject title. I’m developing a new CMS
and want to be able to allow people who sign up to create their own
user
account as follows: http://USERNAME.domainname.co.uk
You’ll need a wildcard DNS in order to direct all those new names to
your webserver; i.e. *.domainname.co.uk -> www.domainname.co.uk.
The front-end webserver will need to accept by wildcard too; if you’re
using Apache you can do this with a similar directive; ServerName
*.domainname.co.uk
Then your controllers need to look at the HTTP request that has been
made to work out which USERNAME is coming in, perhaps in request_uri
… perhaps a before_filter to extract the name and present it in an
instance variable?
-jim
