[Locomotive-users] dynamic subdomains

[alarkspur]

thanks, alrady i understand a little to it better.
a greeting.


> alarkspur wrote:
>> I understand,
>>
>> but that happens if the users register in the data base.
>> I need to insert a registry in /etc/host by each user?
>> RoR can write automatically in the /etc/host file???
> No, you do it the other way around.
>
> On your production system, you use wild card DNS. If your  
> application is at example.com, then you configure your name server  
> to return the IP address of example.com for fred.example.com,  
> sue.example.com, and any.other.unspecified.domain.example.com. You  
> will need to talk to whomever provides the name service for your  
> domain about implementing wild card DNS.
>
> RoR, and your web server need to be configured to handle the  
> routing of the subdomains, but it sounds like you have this part  
> covered. In case you don't there is a page on wiki.rubyonrails.org  
> that explains it. That page may be a little dated, but it should  
> get this started.
>
> To do this on your localhost you need to make specific entries in  
> your /etc/hosts file as Lori mentioned, or set up a nameserver on  
> your localhost that does wild card DNS for localhost.
>
> Ray
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