Create subdomains during registration

Question

I am creating a website where businesses can register for their own account, which should be located at http://businessname.example.com with "businessname" changing every time.

I want to do this on a Windows server (IIS 7), but I don’t know how to do it.

Answer 1

First you need to configure the DNS server to resolve * .example.com to the IP address of your server.

Then you have two options:

• Each time a new account is created, you add its host to the IIS configuration, so it is bound to a directory. I am not sure how to do this programmatically.
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Answer 2

http://forums.asp.net/t/874598.aspx

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Answer 3

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http://forums.iis.net/t/1151463.aspx

Answer 4

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• DNS
• Using the IIS API to add host names to a domain, for example. businessname.domain.com
• Software impersonation (since this code requires a higher level of privileges to use the IIS API than just NETWORK SERVICE

After you programmatically add a host name, wildcard matching allows you to resolve it.

The Rewrite URL option will be cleaner, but with a physical domain you can offer FTP access and other things, as it will be a complete domain.

Andrew