Question

I’m creating a website using MVC framework (Yii) and I need to dynamically create subdomains, i.e. http://company.website.com

So, in order to achieve this I’ve added a DNS wildcard (*.website.com). Now the problem is that my application controllers are all the same for http://www.website.com and for company.website.com. For example, I have a User controller with Register action (user/register). Now if I go to http://www.website.com/user/register I can register, but I can do exactly the same if I go to company.website.com/user/register. And this behaviour is the same for all my controllers.

I realize everything is working correctly, but how do I separate controllers for http://www.website.com and for compnay.website.com? I don’t want users to access register/login/other controllers and actions from the subdomian url.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

Answer 1

You could include hostname into your routing rules array. For example, you could create rules

array(
    'http://www.website.com/user/register' => 'user/register',
    'http://<company:\w+>.website.com/user/register' => 'other/route',
)

and check for company parameter in your other/route action. Please note that http:// is required for those rules to work. See CUrlManager documentation for more details.

P.S. If controllers for http://www.website.com and http://company.website.com/user/register are completely different it could be better to set up two applications for those sites.