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setting up subdomain in LAMP with PHP – Plesk

is there a way to have a LAMP server and create subdomain programatically via PHP?

I don’t want to install Plesk or cPanel, I know they have API’s which lets me create subdomains. But is there a way to go around them and have a bare server with just LAMP services installed.

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    Just point all subdomains to your document root, and figure out which subdomain was accessed in your PHP code. With wildcard DNS and a wildcard virtual host, you do not need to “create” subdomains, all possible subdomains simply exist.

    <VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName *.example.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html
</VirtualHost>

    This is how services that hand out a subdomain to each user work. They do not actually create DNS records, edit web server config files, and restart all their services every time a user signs up.

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    You can look at the mass virtual hosting module provided by Apache:

    With your PHP, when you want to create a new domain, simply create a new directory … and implement parts of this configuration (consult the link above) on how to configure your Apache. This will allow a seperate vhost per host … as opposed to the alternate answer which still requires more configuration work per unique hostname…

     # get the server name from the Host: header
 UseCanonicalName Off

 # this log format can be split per-virtual-host based on the first field
 LogFormat "%V %h %l %u %t "%r" %s %b" vcommon
 CustomLog logs/access_log vcommon

 # include the server name in the filenames used to satisfy requests
 VirtualDocumentRoot /www/hosts/%0/docs
 VirtualScriptAlias /www/hosts/%0/cgi-bin
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