Subdomain Setup

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Hi all,

I’m implementing a new site that will need domains like this: newyork.foo.com, chicago.foo.com. Each of these domains will be a self contained community. Locations is a table in the db. The user will be able to login to a specific Location and then add content to it. When a user visits newyork.foo.com for example, I need to scope all the content to that specific location. new locations do not need to be created dynamically. Can anyone recommend a good way of setting up this type of environment? I’m using Apache 2.2

thanks!

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Hello - try http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToUseSubdomainsAsAccountKeys

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This may help you.

blinking bear wrote:

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Those are helpful links, thanks. But where my problem differs is that the subdomain is not user specifc, rather it is group specific. An Account belongs to a city and a city name is what is used for the subdomain.

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It's the same principal. Just get the subdomain use it to find the appropriate city, group, cow, spaceship, whatever...

Starr