By pixor on

I am planning my first Drupal website.

To explain better, it will be a website for bands/musicians, free, and I would like for a band to sign up, then get their own blog, forum and photo gallery. If possible, I would like to be able to make their "home page" or blog be accessible as band_name.my_domain.com, and therefore their blog entries etc to have urls with band_name.my_domain.com in them.

I hope I have explained myself properly :-)

Can anyone tell me if this is possible with Drupal?

Thanks,

Mike.

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Comments

riddle’s picture

riddle commented

You have to configure these things in your cPanel and write proper php code. Drupal offers you content management, not server management. :)

pamphile’s picture

pamphile commented

hmm... sounds like a good workable idea.

Marcel
http://www.MacMiniForums.com/forum/

sangamreddi’s picture

sangamreddi commented

I think U need to use rewrite rules in .htaccess. I haven't tried and i don't know how to do. I am looking for the same solution. If you cme up with a solution post it here.

Sunny
www.gleez.com

deepak@dipak.org’s picture

deepak@dipak.org commented

rewrite might work as someone suggested. I think the following rule (with some tweaking) may do the job:

  RewriteCond   %{HTTP_HOST}                  ^[^\.]+\.example\.com$
  RewriteRule ^([^.]+)\.example\.com(.*)$                          /blog/$1$2  [L]

Deepak

pamphile’s picture

pamphile commented

As soon as i get the time, I'll try this. If anyone get's this to work, let us know.

btw... dont forget to request wildcards subdomains on your domain.

That's how I got automatic subdomains working on my custom built diary host http://diarist.com.

Marcel
http://www.MacMiniForums.com/forums/
http://BlogNetworkForum.com
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EffieRover’s picture

EffieRover commented

Seems like you could do that with multi-site. You'd need to create DNS ptrs for the subdomains, add the subdomains to the apache conf through cpanel (as aliases. The line in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf looks like "ServerAlias subdomain.my_domain.com), then create directories (for each) of site_html_root/sites/subdomain.my_domain.com and edit these two variables for the settings.php file inside

$base_url = 'http://subdomain.my_domain.com';

$conf = array(
'site_frontpage' => 'blog/user/whatever',
);

As far as I know (I'm not an expert) that's all you need to do. It's still a manual process, though. Unless you write a script to automate it and wildcard the DNS ptr. Which I don't know how to do. Good luck

pamphile’s picture

pamphile commented

that might work... but it's not automated

sepedatua’s picture

sepedatua commented

I got an idea, how about this:
- create their band subdomain (myband.yourdomain.com)
- set up a php script that redirect http://myband.yourdrupal.com to the blog (http://www.yourdrupal.com/blog/id)

It's kinda very simple.
How about that?

pamphile’s picture

pamphile commented

Tha's what Depaks mod rewrite attempts to do. I think it's an excellent start.