Generating URL's on the fly

[Y'all Qaeda]

Is there a way of generating URLs on the fly? As in have a main domain and then having something creating new urls as you go along..

E.G www.mybroadband.co.za/somethinghere1
www.mybroadband.co.za/somethinghere2

and having the content of that auto populate through some form of maybe XML or similar?

 

[semaphore]

Yep can be done pretty easily.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Don't see why its not possible..

I've even seen one or two sites working on "automagically" creating subdomains... Its a bit of a BS hack, but it worked quite well with BlogSpot i think it was..

eg..
Main Domain : mybroadband.co.za

Dynamic Domain : domain1.mybroadband.co.za
Dynamic Domain : domain2.mybroadband.co.za

 

[semaphore]

Don't see why its not possible..

I've even seen one or two sites working on "automagically" creating subdomains... Its a bit of a BS hack, but it worked quite well with BlogSpot i think it was..

eg..
Main Domain : mybroadband.co.za

Dynamic Domain : domain1.mybroadband.co.za
Dynamic Domain : domain2.mybroadband.co.za

Its actually not a hack. You can do it very easily with DNS providers. The one i use has an api that allows you to add subdomains on the fly, obviously there is a bit of a dns update that occurs.

 

[Y'all Qaeda]

Cool. Thank you. Now just to figure out how to.

 

[semaphore]

Cool. Thank you. Now just to figure out how to.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13747740/serving-dynamic-urls-with-express-and-mongodb

 

[ToxicBunny]

Its actually not a hack. You can do it very easily with DNS providers. The one i use has an api that allows you to add subdomains on the fly, obviously there is a bit of a dns update that occurs.

The solution I saw was very much a hack since the "propagation" was immediate...

You would create the subdomain and could reference it from anywhere in the world right then and there.

 

[Schizoid29]

Pretty sure that's exactly what stuff like Django, Rails and others are good for. They're usually backed by some flavour of SQL, but with enough determination you can probably jury-rig it to work with an XML store.

 

[mister]

The solution I saw was very much a hack since the "propagation" was immediate...
You would create the subdomain and could reference it from anywhere in the world right then and there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcard_DNS_record

 

[ToxicBunny]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcard_DNS_record

Yup thats the solution....

Was a bit of a hack from memory back when I saw it.. 10 or so years ago.

 

[Noah]

Could try a .htaccess on Apache with mod_rewrite to point everything to a PHP script. PHP script then takes requested URI and loads content accordingly. I did this for my file sharing.

Very lazy/messy/shet way to filter so that only http://noa.moe/qclaq gets treated as a file and nothing else like http://noa.moe/steam/

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(/..../)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/.....)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(/......)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ linkproc.php?filename=$1 [L]

 

[gkm]

Pretty sure that's exactly what stuff like Django, Rails and others are good for. They're usually backed by some flavour of SQL, but with enough determination you can probably jury-rig it to work with an XML store.

Agreed, Rails with dynamic routes will do what you want. Sure there are dozens of other options as well, but I am not a web dev expert.