[FIXED] setting up subdomain in LAMP with PHP

Issue

is there a way to have a LAMP server and create subdomain programatically via PHP?

I don't want to install Plesk or cPanel, I know they have API's which lets me create subdomains. But is there a way to go around them and have a bare server with just LAMP services installed.

Solution

You can look at the mass virtual hosting module provided by Apache:

• http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/mass.html

With your PHP, when you want to create a new domain, simply create a new directory ... and implement parts of this configuration (consult the link above) on how to configure your Apache. This will allow a seperate vhost per host ... as opposed to the alternate answer which still requires more configuration work per unique hostname...

 # get the server name from the Host: header
 UseCanonicalName Off

 # this log format can be split per-virtual-host based on the first field
 LogFormat "%V %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b" vcommon
 CustomLog logs/access_log vcommon

 # include the server name in the filenames used to satisfy requests
 VirtualDocumentRoot /www/hosts/%0/docs
 VirtualScriptAlias /www/hosts/%0/cgi-bin

Answered By - sdolgy