How does the sub-domain like urls are created in web apps?

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Hello,      I registered in a site called basecamp. After I registered, they gave me a url like http://xxx.basecamp.com where i have to log in access my project management. I heard that basecamp is built in ruby on rails. I couldn't get the point of building a subdomain like url. Can anyone give some guidance of how to create a sub domain like url using rails? Thanks in advance

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You can use subdomains for various purposes. One is to host different servers (eg mail.example.com and www.example.com), or to host different applications (eg blog@example.com and forum@example.com).

I believe Basecamp use it to have nicer URLs. The standard way would be: //www.example.com/~rockroll/..., or //www.example.com/...?user_id=123456

//rockroll.example.com/... looks nicer.

A few links: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToUseSubdomainsAsAccountKeys

Christian