Comments on: Setting up Wildcard DNS & Subdomains on cPanel

By: David Grega

David Grega — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:21:00 +0000

You do not need to create any DNS records after adding * (the input text box should say * rather than *.mysite.com) as a subdomain. If you have root access to the server, submit a support ticket. Otherwise, contact your hosting provider so they can contact us.

By: Hina

Hina — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:30:00 +0000

It’s not working for me. I created *.mysite.com as a subdomain and after 24h without success I then try to create *.mysite.com as an A record pointing to my server’s IP.

By: Asasa

Asasa — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:15:00 +0000

adding * as a subdomain is a breeze…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 08:08:00 +0000

seriously, creating a sub domain is as easy as 1,2,3.. you dont need to go through all this… but anyways thanx for the effort
regards
iphone 5

By: Dustin

Dustin — Tue, 26 May 2009 11:40:36 +0000

It should work on a new installation of cPanel. I’ve had it work on a couple of different installations. The person that left the tip above works for cPanel I believe.

By: dm

dm — Mon, 25 May 2009 08:46:15 +0000

Now I’m a bit puzzled, please look below

Does the cpanel method work for a plain new installation or not?

“It only works because that webhost has done the Apache edits already, or has them added to the accounts on signup.
That’s the ONLY reason.”
http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/12595?replies=2#post-75173

By: Rick @ Business Phone Service

Rick @ Business Phone Service — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:13:46 +0000

There is now a basic email level plugin with DirectAdmin. The plugin allows you to install some php scripts into dedicated accounts which then allows any POP account to login to those scripts to access their POP account setup. This is an ideal solution if you have an account that has 20 email accounts because the interface permits each email user to log into their individual email control panel to change things like password, autoresponder, etc. It shows them their current disk usage, ability to change their password, set vacation messages (without bugging the webmaster), and provides them with the three links to the webmail programs.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:02:06 +0000

I am curious, once you have a wildcard setup and then do url aliasing so you can grab variables from your clean url domain/city/state/etc and pass them to orig.php?city=xyz&state=123 and so on, is there a way to grab the wildcard subdomain as variable #1 and pass it to the orig.php as one of the variables for the query string?

On a side note, great article, wish I had read your comments area first though, I spent a whole day yesterday on that in putty and then I just went into another account t used cpanel to create * as a subdomain and amazingly it worked! thanks for any feedback on my question.

By: Steve Vermette

Steve Vermette — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:24:02 +0000

Thanks a lot Dustin! It’s working very well!

By: Thomas King

Thomas King — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:43:05 +0000

@Dustin,

This is not a waste of time! Intermediate skill level? Pah. Don’t underrate yourself. I wish I had time to blog, it would do wonders for my SEO. Too busy working on other people’s sites though. Anyhow, found your site because of Google and trying to solve a cPanel/Bind issue unrelated to your post. Very nice layout. Maybe I will set up wordpress for myself one day. Good job man.