Subdomain Setup

Rails
1

Hi all,

I’m implementing a new site that will need domains like this:
newyork.foo.com, chicago.foo.com. Each of these domains will be a self
contained community. Locations is a table in the db. The user will be
able
to login to a specific Location and then add content to it. When a user
visits newyork.foo.com for example, I need to scope all the content to
that
specific location. new locations do not need to be created dynamically.
Can anyone recommend a good way of setting up this type of environment?
I’m
using Apache 2.2

thanks!

2

Hello - try
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToUseSubdomainsAsAccountKeys

3

This
http://redhanded.hobix.com/bits/dynamicVhostsOneLinerForRails.html may
help you.

4

Those are helpful links, thanks. But where my problem differs is that
the
subdomain is not user specifc, rather it is group specific. An Account
belongs to a city and a city name is what is used for the subdomain.

5

It’s the same principal. Just get the subdomain use it to find the
appropriate city, group, cow, spaceship, whatever…

Starr