[cobalt-users] wilcard sub-domains

["abcwebspace" <gr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

we have wildcard sub-domains set up for a few clients who then use php3 or
cgi to redirect to sub-directories/user pages etc - works fine.

But my question is to do with Apache rewrite on the raq - I have a customer
who wants to use apache mod_rewrite to do this - at present  I put an entry
in /etc/named/records like this:

a * seventh-star-studios.com 64.65.31.174 24

the entry in httpd.conf is:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}                !^64.65.31.174(:80)?$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}
!^www.seventh-star-studios.com(:80)?$
RewriteRule ^/(.*)
http://www.seventh-star-studios.com/$1 [L,R]

This sends all wildcards to the IP based virtual domain.

So, my customer wants to use rewrites to sort out what name was requested
and where it should go - maybe it's possible but isn't this possible just
using html headers?

Anyway, anyone who has experience of using this on a raq (because my next
concern is that the gui will overwirte everything next time services are
restarted) please get in touch

regards

Gary