Rails - Feb 2006 - action.controller.domain instead of dmn/cntrlr/action ?

Hey,

I want my users to be able to use the following notation:

  -- http://id.action.controller.domain.com/

instead of having to type in the standard Rails:

  -- http://domain.com/controller/action/id

How can I do this? Is it even possible? If not, don''t you think this is
something that the core team should have a look at?

(PS. I''m using MySQL for backend and developed using RAILS v1.0 )
Lots of thanks!!!

Gustav Paul
gustav@psychohistorian.org

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On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 09:11:19PM +0100, gustav paul
wrote:
> I want my users to be able to use the following notation:
>   -- http://id.action.controller.domain.com/
> 
> instead of having to type in the standard Rails:
>   -- http://domain.com/controller/action/id
A rewrite by your webserver would do this.

You need to provide wildcards entries for DNS and the webserver to even
get started, and then use mod_rewrite to change the host name into a
host+url. Read the mod_rewrite docs, lookinf for "Virtual User Hosts"
examples.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/rewrite/rewrite_guide.html

An untested suggestion would be ...
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^[^.]+\.[^.]+\.[^.]+\.domain\.com$
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)\.([^.]+)\.([^.]+)\.domain\.com(.*)
http://domain.com/$3/$2/$1

-jim