With reference to a previous
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I would like my app to function as follows:
A new user signs up for my application, his username is “andy”. When
andy now logs in to the application the url is redirected to :
http://andy.myapplication.com
Questions:
Is this possible to develop on a windows box with webrick?
Do I need anything special like lighttpd to achieve this?
Can this be done automatically without manually editing a http config
file?
Alternative:
As an alternative I could have the url look like:
http://www.myapplication.com/andy
so that an operation could be then located at:
http://www.myapplication.com/andy/articles/list
Questions:
Is this better to use for developing on a standalone system?
Could I then use routes to achieve this?
Is this recommended over the first option?
I need to get this resolved before I commence building as it will affect
all the controllers etc.
Thanks 
James W. wrote:
A new user signs up for my application, his username is “andy”. When
andy now logs in to the application the url is redirected to :
http://andy.myapplication.com
Questions:
Is this possible to develop on a windows box with webrick?
Do I need anything special like lighttpd to achieve this?
Can this be done automatically without manually editing a http config
file?
You’ll need is to edit your host file[1], inserting values for
localhost.com and andy.localhost.com. Sure the real localhost.com will
be
unreachable after this, but in return you’ll have nice subdomained
system
localhosted as it suits you better.
[1] hosts (file) - Wikipedia
Dee Z. wrote:
James W. wrote:
A new user signs up for my application, his username is “andy”. When
andy now logs in to the application the url is redirected to :
http://andy.myapplication.com
Questions:
Is this possible to develop on a windows box with webrick?
Do I need anything special like lighttpd to achieve this?
Can this be done automatically without manually editing a http config
file?
You’ll need is to edit your host file[1], inserting values for
localhost.com and andy.localhost.com. Sure the real localhost.com will
be
unreachable after this, but in return you’ll have nice subdomained
system
localhosted as it suits you better.
[1] hosts (file) - Wikipedia
Yes your right but I would like to automate the whole process just like
backpack etc does. When a user signs up for an account a new subdomain
is created so that when he logs in he sees something like:
http://www.myapplication.com/andy
you’d only have to do the host file on your local system; online with
a real DNS server behind it, it should be automatic.
you could always install a DNS server at home. 
On 2/19/06, James W. [email protected] wrote:
Can this be done automatically without manually editing a http config
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