Running Multiple Sites / Domains On Abyss

[Bluedog]

Update: Now uses the new variable naming convention.

I noticed it was often asked if it was possible to have addresses such as forum.mydomain.com, mydomain.com, and my2nddomain.com all pointing to different sites on abyss.

Although you can't actually do this via abyss (yet), you can using this small php script I wrote. If you put it in the /htdocs of your directory, and name it index.php (or other .php index extension), depending on the url the user entered it will forward to a different website.

This code is setup for 3 websites, and if neither of the addresses are entered it shows an error page of your choice. Just duplicate where indicated! To have less than three domains, simply delete 1 block of the code (from 'if' to '}')

[vbgunz]

Hey Blue this is a really cool script if it does exactly what I think it does... I own several domains and subdomains and can definately find use for your script so good looking out for contributing it to this forum ;)

I have just two questions (I haven't tried your script yet)...

Can I use the script to work the other way around? like this... Heres a snip...

if ($HTTP_HOST == "yourdomain.com/ralphsplumbing/consultation/") {

header("Location : http://www.ralphsplumbing.com");
exit;

the if leads to a directory on my site and if someone trys accessing that directory they get bounced off my server...

Also do I have to pinpoint the files? I noticed you redirected to an absolute page instead of just a directory... Can I just input directories?

I haven't tried your script but it looks like can be a very cool and handy script indeed... Thanks for putting it up ;)
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[Bluedog]

yup directories are absolutely fine. Just enter:

if ($HTTP_HOST == "yourdomain.com") {

header("Location : mysubfolder/");
exit;

with mysubfolder being abyss\htdocs\mysubfolder\



You will not be able to use the script the reverse way you said, unless the script is in the directory, as it basically works like this: you open yourdomain.com - no extension so it opens index.php. Index.php checks the domain - if its xxx.com it forwards to /xxx/. If its yyy.com it goes to /yyy/, and so on. Therefore if you try to access a directory without the script in, it will just open the directory as usual.

Basically, if yourdomain.com/ralphsplumbing/consultation/ contains the script as an index file, yes it will work correctly in reverse.

Also, as http_host gets just the hostname, and we want the path, your code would be:

[vbgunz]

This has got to be a hotscript! Thanks for the contribution ;)
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[Bluedog]

Hehe, thanks :)

[stevejluke]

Hey :)

Really looking forward to this script, but am getting a couple of errors (actually
just one error over and over again) :

Notice: Undefined variable: HTTP_HOST in C:\Program Files\Abyss Web Server\htdocs\index.php on line 4

repeated for each host that I am using. What could be wrong?

(I know this isn't a problem with your script, I was running another script and
kept getting same error for a variable called 'del' in it)

Thanks for any help.

[aprelium]

stevejluke,
search for undefined variable in the PHP forum.
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[stevejluke]

Thanks.

The problem was that is use an 'old style' variable name. Now the variables
are stored in arrays. The HTTP_HOST this script uses is now defined in the
$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] variable. The way I read it is you should add the line:
$HTTP_HOST = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']
before the if statements.

I think this is right anyway.

Thanks for the script, it runs great now. :)

[stevejluke]

Hi,

Just thought I would post this variation on the script. It uses REFERER as the basis for the redirection, rather than the HTTP_HOST. I do this because I use a dynamic IP redirection service (no-ip.com) and an alternate port for the webserver (because my ISP blocks port 80). To get around both these obsticles I set up two domains, one is updated with my IP, the other redirects to the first's alternate port... like this
theLikes.sytes.net => 123.45.67.890 (my IP)
*.luke.no-ip.net => theLukes.sytes.net:81 (correct port on my IP)

So when I do this, HTTP_HOST no longer works with this script since it will always be the same, but the REFERER will contain the domain names that I want to evaluate. So this is my code:

[iggyall]

I used both defines of the script. I added the server ghost line above the if statement line. I narrowed all the errors down to one

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_IF in C:\Program Files\Abyss Web Server\htdocs\index.php on line 6

in either instance of the posted scripts I get this error.

it is the first "if" statement line.

Any clue as to why it is doing this?

[Vitalichka]

Ok my question is this.

If I am usingone IP from the service provider. I didn't buy the IP so it's not Static but it doesn't chnage much either. Maybe once a year. But that's besides the point.

So, I have one true IP and I use dydns.org to register static DNS so that when people go to such addresses as [url]armenikend.gotdns.com[/url], they are tranferred to my site. But if the IP block only has one address, and the port is only one, then how would the script work for different pages?

Would it just transfer the users to another subdirectory with an index file and there would be the page masked behing a never changing address?

If the address says.... msn.gotdns.com or something like it, and it goes to my IP, then goes to the nearest index in htdocs folder, then how would it know or how would the script let it know that when the user goes to msn2.gotdns.com, that is should go to another page.

I think I know but I would rather have you explain to me.
If you have time.

[wayne475]

I have gotten this script to finally work with much playing around however it doesnt really work properly. It never gets redirected. No matter what I seem to do it always get pointed to my ELSE page. Its like it never reads the URL. Maybe I have done something in the script to cause this. Here is my code below, any help would be apretiated. I just have have one if statement in their for testing purposes.

[wayne475]

it apears as though it didnt like the "HTTP://" in the script it must assume the HTTP:// is there so it would just be
if ($HOST == 'www.website.com')
and not
if ($HOST == 'HTTP://www.website.com')

[brad]

aprelium, will subdomains/virtual hosts (apache) be included in future releases? This is the one feature that I would like to see in Abyss that is in Apache.

Thanks,
Brad

[aprelium]

[os17fan]

You have got to put this domain script on hotscripts.com , it is so cool.
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Lets say I have a domain www.offspringvideos.com and I want a seperat sub domain to point to the same site as offspringvideos.com , If I drop your script in the htdocs folder and point sub.mydomain.com to offspringvideos.com/html_tutorial.html , sub.mydomain.com will always be. sub.mydomain.com even in the address bar it won't point to sub.mydomain.com/html_tutorial.html it will just be sub.mydomain.com and with your script I proved this. Here are some excelent examples.

http://www.offspringvideos.com
Goes to my regular web site.

http://offspring.zapto.org/ goes to
/html_tutorial.html

with out it showing

http://offspring.zapto.org/html_tutorial.html
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I hope you all understand this, This script is a #1 hit , I love it.

all you have to do is for path to sub domain , you make a second index file in your htdocs and point your sub domain to that , if you use a sub directory like /2site it will not work
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Blue Dog put this script on hotscripts now it Rocks ! :D
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[CapFusion]

[os17fan]

The script was originaly for 3 domains right , I modified it to handle 5 domains ! Check these out. All domains below are hosted on one server

http://offspring.zapto.org/
A Basic HTML Tutorial

http://offspring.no-ip.com
My powered by e107 web site

http://os17fan.cjb.net
A Resizing image tutorial P.S. cjb.net is not redirection any more

http://www.offspringvideos.com
My official hosted web site

http://bbs.offspringvideos.com
My phpBB2 Forum

Now thats why I think Blue Dog needs this script on hotscripts , he can make money off this , very good PHP script. :D
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[dws1]

I tried using this script for redirection but keep getting this error.
Warning:Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by
(output started at C:\Program Files\Abyss Web Server\htdocs\index.php:9)
Line 9 is <?php
Any suggestion? :(

[os17fan]

If your talking about A redirection type domain , this does not support redirection. I tried it with my os17fan.com domain. 8)
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[CapFusion]

[wayne475]

Been using this script since April and works great however, well check it out for your self instead of me explaining it. Here is a game I play. I made a website for it and it uses the PHP script from DOG. HTTP://WWW.PISTOLWARRIORS.COM

you will notice it looks like www.pistolwarriors.com/pw when it comes up. Is there a way to mask it so I dont see the PW supfolder>>?

[os17fan]

I know a way , you have it as a sub folder in the script as /pw , it should be the full path to the folder /pw/index.php
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[wayne475]

When I do that it shows the whole thing then. www.pistolwarriors.com/pw/index.html I want people to see www.pistolwarriors.com not the whole path.

[Ailill]

got the code working with only minor difficulties (need to learn to type ~laffs~)

Now question is can one have a domain point to another drive on the PC?

[joeplain]

I have been using abyss for about 2 years but never used the forum. I have 41 domains on my server all post eg. www.yourdomain.com . The simplest and most reliable way is to claim your website at http://registerfly.com They have more services for domain control than I can mention, all on a control panel. What I do is use their redirect with frame option. I create the directory in abyss, the go to registerfly.com and use the redirect there. I enter the exact address in the redirect field then post it. Within 1 to 12 hours I can type in www.mydomain.com it pulls it up from abyss but the address bar still displays www.mydomain.com instead of http://4.90.678.899/folder/folder/index.html or something. Also I use Globalscape cutesite builder to create pages with their container page feature. It captures a page on my server without showing the ip addres, keeping the www.domin.com in the address bar....just a thought. Some of us are not that great with script especily on Windows (Crap)XP system. :idea:

[gray]

Thanks a lot for this handy little script !

This script works fine with new php if you change
$HTTP_HOST to $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']

and I think it`s a good idea to use two entries for each url one with www and one without e.g.

"mysite.com" and "www.mysite.com"

it may also be worth mentioning that the urls should be pointing to the server ip , it won`t work if you`ve used webforwarding.

Does anyone know if this script affects search engine robots ? will they read the just the script or will they read the actual page the script points to ?

[Daniel]

How do I even get a domain on my webserver... Like.. the DNS settings.. would that be my IP? if so.. my IP changes all the time.. then what? How can I get my own DNS?
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[aprelium]

[park]

I tried to use this little script, but it seem sit doesn't work with latest edition of php (4.3.3)

[Bluedog]

Wow...been a LONG time since I've been on here.

I am glad my script has helped a lot of you, I originally made it to serve myself, and thought I'd give it out to you.

It seems the biggest problems is ensuring Register Globals is enabled in php.ini, and that this is saved into the system dir, ie /windows/system32

:D

[Bluedog]

As stevejluke mentioned some time back, replacing $HTTP_HOST with $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] will solve this problem. The script I originally posted uses the old PHP variable naming convention, basically because when I wrote it, $HTTP_HOST was standard.

Http://www.blue-networks.net/ is now my home, if anyone is interested.

[os17fan]

Hey Bluedog , Change your Front page script to match those varibals so people don't get confused when they install it , I have register globals off to test it and it worked fine , just change that to reflect your new varibals , do you really think people are going to read this all the way to page 3 , I don't think so. Change it now!

Note: On my tutorials , I only wanted you to put register Globals On that way if you wanted to run Bluedog's multiple domain PHP script , you could. Since he found out a way to run it with out Reg Globals On , go ahead and change that to Off if you want. Use that varible Bluedog posted
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[park]

cool, this script works great!

[os17fan]

Don't forget to check out the domain form creator that I created , its posted in the tutorials. I can configure the form to handle 24 domains instead of 12 if you want. Later!
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[Bluedog]

cool, this will be helpful for people who are not experienced with php or code editing :D
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[DarkFiraga]

Umm, I think I'm doing this REALLY wrong cause I'm kinda confused
Yea, I'm new to php...thats probably why.

But, I have barely started my site yet, and I'm using a just stupid page for my index (and its not even related to my site) but I wanted to do this part to get it over with.

Now heres what I have:

[TRUSTAbyss]

To DarkFiraga , have you tried using my domain form , you don't have to turn register globals on for it to work and im sure bluedog doesn't mind me using a form for his site script , im just making it easier for people and thats why its on hotscripts.com called Multiple Site Creator :twisted:

http://www.multiple-sites.tk

[Bluedog]

yeh, it's fine, I'm glad my script's been of use. If you want, chuck a link to http://www.blue-networks.net/ on the site and I'd be eternally grateful :) heh..

anyway, yeh, before submitting a problem, I'd suggest everyone tries the nice script that is now available :)
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[TRUSTAbyss]

Thanks Bluedog for the support of my creativity , I will add a link to your site as soon as possible , right now , im cooking pizza lol. Later! :D

[senshi]

[Bluedog]

The script now supports php 4.3.* right away, I have changed the variable naming to support the new php variable naming convention.

Yey.. :D
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[housler]

I keep getting this error:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\Program Files\Abyss Web Server\htdocs\index.php:8) in C:\Program Files\Abyss Web Server\htdocs\index.php on line 13


Here is the script:

<?php

//get domain entered in browser
$HOST = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
if ($HOST == "www.mystockmarket.net") {
header("Location : /msm/index.html");
exit;
}
if ($HOST == "www.u1mybid.com") {
header("Location : /cgi-bin/auction/auction.pl");
exit;
}
?>

[TRUSTAbyss]

Dude , try out my Virtual host program

http://www.multiple-sites.tk

(easy setup) 8)

[housler]

I did but it didn't work. When I completed the form it didn't create a file. It only showed your php scripted.

I checked to see if php was working on my system by doing the:

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

And it worked great. All info was shown.

I had the same idea as you, use the script and it would work. :lol:

Any other usggestions??

[wayne475]

I did you get your domain name in the URL to show just the domain name? My domains come up like this http://www.pistolwarriors.com/pistolwarriors/pw/<indexfile>. I want it to read just http://pistolwarriors.com

[TRUSTAbyss]

you need to read the instructions on the main page ok !

doing this /site/ will show (www.you.com)

[TRUSTAbyss]

housler

You have to save the source code as index.php ~! It doesn't
create a index.php file for you , all it does is generate the code after your done. :D

[Kent]

here is a code that actually works and masks the real url to the multiple sites
be sure you title the php script to your servers default index.php or whatever you have made it default to, on my server its pal.php its probly not the same on yours, index.php is your best bet