[cobalt-users] Tips: Setting up sub-domains for clients

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Say you have a client with the domain  mydomain.com and he wants to provide 
his client with  hisclient.mydomain.com and allow his client to upload via 
FTP and for his client's username to be in mydoman.com's siteadmin section.

I put this tip together to help anyone interested in setting up sub-domains 
for users WITHOUT editing any server files.  This tip allows you to setup 
(username.domain.com) and allow users in domain.com to upload and manage 
files sharing the disk quota of domain.com AND allowing the siteadmin of 
domain.com access to his web files!!!

Ok,heres how to do it...  Say you have a client with the domain  mydomain.com 
and he wants to provide his client with  hisclient.mydomain.com and allow his 
client to upload via FTP and for his client's username to be in mydoman.com's 
siteadmin section sharing the disk quota of mydomain.com ....

#1) create the username (hisclient) in domain.com's siteadmin section.
#2) create the sub-domain hisclient.mydomain.com on the main Admin section
#3) get root access in telnet and go to the /home/sites dir by typing 'cd 
/home/sites'
#4) figure out what directory the new sub-domain is by typing
 'ls -l |grep hisname.mydomain.com'
#5) go into that site's web dir 'cd site#/web'
#6) create .htaccess by typing   'pico -w .htaccess'
#7) put the following in the .htaccess file changing the info where required:
RewriteEngine  on
RewriteBase    /
RewriteRule    ^(.*)$  http://www.mydomain.com/~hisclient/$1  [P] 

That will keep the sub-domain in the URL box and look at files in ~hisclient 
AND cgi-bin will work AND hisclient shares mydomain.com's disk quota.

Ingenious huh?  I wrote that after spending an hour on the apache site.

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