Cross-posted from my personal blog (http://myside.myspew.com/):
It has been a busy night for me indeed. My mission was to enable LifeType's BLOG sub-domains.
I thought this was going to be an easy step with GoDaddy's DNS utilities. However, I quickly realized that I was unable to create a wildcard A name record nor an alias. Frustrated, and sure as hell I could do it, I called customer support.
The representative had to call a different level support guru. When he got back to me, he said he would make the changes while I was on the phone. He failed, trying everything I already did. He was back on the phone with the guru's and was then told that I would need a virtual or dedicated server package. Obviously bumbed out at this, I said thank you, but by. This after he told me if I were to purchase these services, tech support would not help with setup, but hinted that it is possible with the user's available tools.
Playing with the A records a bit, I realized that I could assign *.mypew.com and a private IP. Before this I was using just (*) and the shared IP, hoping it would resolve correctly.
Let me mention before I go on.. I tried playing with the .htaccess files trying to change some Apache site variables, but they all failed miserably making my sight inaccessible.
Now all I needed was a dedicated IP. This costs just a couple dollars a month, and worth it if you need some major DNS tweaks. So far it has been fun.
So I created the record: *.myspew.com ip.ip.ip.ip Look it up yourself, if you wish.
I then proceeded to my .htaccess file to insert some nasty redirections and alias information. However, I found none of these changes were needed so I later removed the messy declarations.
I changed a few settings in LifeType, and WALA! The 3rd level domains are now the BLOG owner's user name. All is working great.
Why did I do this? I figured if any friends, or friends of the friends of mine reading this wants a BLOG, it might be available to them. Hint Hint, drop me an e-mail if you want a BLOG on this domain. This goes for anyone on the EINSTEIN@HOME FreeBSD team also.
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