Question

I would like to allow my users to have their own dedicated URL, for example if my URL is http://www.XYZ.com, my users will have http://www.NAME.XYZ.com OR http://www.XYZ.com/NAME.

At the moment you can see their page by going to http://www.XYZcom/Member.aspx?userID=”012345″

Now I would like to somehow map the URL to the currect system.

I have no idea whatwhat I need to do, I have seem many websites that have done this, so I hope that it would be possible for me to do the same in ASP .net.

Thank you in Advance.
Cheers

Answer 1

If your domain name DNS record is pointing to the IP address of the site, you should be able to access the site using anything.XYZ.com.

When you create a users account, you need to asign them a unique subdomain name and then detect this when users get to the site using their domain name (see the code below)

/// <summary>
        /// Gets the Current SubDomain
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public static string GetSubDomain()
        {
            string subDomain = String.Empty;

            if (HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.HostNameType == UriHostNameType.Dns)
            {
                subDomain = Regex.Replace(HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.Host, "((.*)(\\..*){2})|(.*)", "$2");
            }

            if (subDomain.Length == 0)
            {
                subDomain = "www";
            }

            return subDomain;
        }