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MobileChung

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#25071 11-Aug-2008 13:48
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Hi guys, this is for the real geeks out there.

Few years ago, my friend sent me a link to a website, via MSN, and the address got my name in it. I can't remember exactly what is was but it might be something like "something.johnsmith.com". When I click on the link, the page basically contains an animated inspiration message with the name in the url address e.g. john smith. I tried some other name or any random name, it works as well. So I guess my question is has anybody came across any sites like this? If not, I wonder how it's done?? Almost like creating a domain name on the fly, I know how to create web pages but I suspect it's something done on the host server to allow this to happen and that's beyond my knowledge, any commends welcome, thanks guys! Laughing

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  #156067 11-Aug-2008 21:47
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Wouldn't be too hard to achieve, if you own yourdomain.com, you automatically have rights to whatever.yourdomain.com.  You could easily setup Apache (using .htaccess files) that if it didn't find a particular subdomain to redirect to another page.  Using PHP you could then extract that name and display it on the webpage or in a Flash animation.

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