I try working with the module DA and the Drupal 6.12 system hosted on the company Bluehost. I read the readme.txt of DA and opened a ticket to ask them for help with server configuration for DNS. But the response I got is that wildcard DNS is no longer supported by Bluehost.

Bluehost, one of the best hosting companies, can't support the wildcard DNS service. How can we use the DA module on real sites with shared server? Is there any other solution? Thanks!

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agentrickard’s picture

Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

This module is not designed to run on hosts where you do not control your DNS registry.

Search the issue queue or get Bluehost to route several static DNS records (e.g. don't use wildcards). Or switch hosts.

uufsm’s picture

Version: 6.x-2.0-rc9 » 6.x-2.0-rc8

Since Bluehost doesn't support wildcards, you can't create Subdomains solely through Drupal, but you can still use Domain Access by creating your subdomains via the CPanel in Bluehost and then assigning them in Domain Access.

Specifically:

1) Install Drupal in your site. (If it's in a directory, you can create a subdomain for it, so that mysite.com/drupal can be reached via drupal.mysite.com.)

2) Install domain access module and the single-sign-on module so that you can access all the subdomains. You'll also need the Views module.

3) Log into your Cpanel. Create a subdomain. In the Directory Root field, the Cpanel will automatically add a backslash and the name of the subdomain after public_html. Erase the / and the name so that the directory root reads just public_html. Click Create.

4) Go into Drupal and use Domain Access to create a domain with that name.

Repeat as needed until you have all the domains you want.

NB: Domains created in this fashion do not support emails, so if you have a subdomain called movies, you can't have an email account or forwarder such as mail @ movies.website.org. You could make a full-fledged subdomain called mail, and then create emails such as movies @ mail.website.org.

epg’s picture

Does anyone know of some good shared hosts that enable you to use wildcards on the DNS registry then? Any recommendations?

rwoldezghi’s picture

Version: 6.x-2.0-rc8 » 6.x-2.0-rc9
Status: Closed (duplicate) » Active

I am trying desperately to get DA working on Drupal 6.14 w/ MySQL 5.0.81, PHP 5.2.9 on Bluehost. I have thoroughly gone through the INSTALL.txt, INSTALL_QUICKSTART.txt, and README.txt, but no luck getting to work properly.

Currently, when I point the browser to the subdomain I want (one.example.com), I only get the front page content from the default domain but DA is not setting the theme and links are not working (Page not Found, is the result I get).

I have tried uufsm's method (#2), but same issue persist!

Any help or advice would be appreciated!
Thanks,

agentrickard’s picture

Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

This is a duplicate. I cannot help you.

Try the forums.

uufsm’s picture

You could check this:

Don't change the $base_url line to enable clean URLs in the sites/default/settings.php file. Domain Access needs to be able to change the url.

I had it set and it gave me similar problems. Got rid of it and DA worked fine.