user names as subdomains - HOWTO

Discussion in 'Tips/Tricks/Mods' started by radim_h, Apr 28, 2007.

  1. radim_h

    radim_h Member HowtoForge Supporter

    I think this can interrest someone:

    It used to drive me crazy have user names in format
    http://www.domain.tld/users/webXX_user
    wanted them as http://user.domain.tld (third level domain)

    so here is how to do it

    1. in Ispconfig go to Management->System Config->Settings->ISP manager
    change User Prefix to [DOMAIN]_
    then user dirs will lok like http://www.domain.tld/users/domain.tld_user

    2. Create file /etc/httpd/user_rewrite.conf which includes

    RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} !^www\.
    RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} !^mail\. ( not neccessary see bellow)
    RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} ^([^.]*)\.(.*\..*)$
    RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /var/www/www.%2/user/%2_%1/web/$1 [L]

    You can create as many lines like "RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} !^www\." as you want
    ^www\. here means that www.domain.tld will not rewrite (will not be looking for directory http://www.domain.tld/users/domain.tld_www, but show www.domain.tld) In my case i'm using also rewrite to show webmail as mail.domain.tld for each domain so i also have
    RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} !^mail\.

    3. In ISP manager->sites click on your site, then go to "Co-domains" and add
    yourIP * domain.tld

    6 In ISPmanger->sites-> www.domain.tld ->Basic put "Include user_rewrite.conf" into Apache Directives (Optional):


    If you have more domains and don't want to forget do this for each domain, change:
    Management->Form Designer->Edit Form->isp - ISP Web:->edit->web_httpd_include->Edit and put Include user_rewrite.conf into Default: window

    5. In DNS manager ->domain.tld-> records you must create
    CNAME * domain.tld

    6. probably not necessary, but you can restart apache "apachectl restart"

    and you are done :)



    =============
    If you want to have mail.domain.tld for each domain showing your default webmail
    must have in DNS for your site
    CNAME mail yourwebmail.yourdomain.tld
    and your /etc/httpd/user_rewrite.conf should look like this

    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} ^mail.*.*$
    RewriteRule .* /var/www/path_to_your_webmail_site/web$0 [L]
    RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} !^www\.
    RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} !^www2\.
    RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} !^mysql2\.
    RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} ^([^.]*)\.(.*\..*)$
    RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /var/www/www.%2/user/%2_%1/web/$1 [L]

    It works for me, i have configured webmail outside ISPconfig apache, if you use some webmail inside ispconfig in /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/web/yourwebmail it may not work (haven't tried)






    Just have 2 questions for Falco or some other developer here .)

    1. is there more ellegant way how to include user_rewrite.conf for all domains?
    It didnt work for me to include in httpd.conf for all domains at once, its working just when included for each Virtual Host separatelly

    2. Can i change default DNS entry for domains without editing code?
    In my case i like to have DNS for all domains by default like this:

    A Record
    empty (domain.tld is already included in zone file but not showed in DNS manager)

    CNAME
    Hostname Target
    * mydomain.tld
    mail mail.myhosting.tld

    MX
    Mailserver Hostname
    mail.myhosting.tld
    mailbackup.myhosting.tld

    (by default it shows MX admin.myhosting.tld which is wrong for me i have admin on different ip adress then users webs)
     
    Last edited: May 16, 2007
  2. radim_h

    radim_h Member HowtoForge Supporter

    better one

    rewrite thru http:// in previous post makes not neccessary overhead, better one will be rewrite on filesystem:

    RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /var/www/www.%2/user/%2_%1/web/$1 [L]



    it should be nice to have it in /etc/httpd/conf/vhosts/Vhosts_ispconfig.conf
    together with
    AliasMatch ^/~([^/]+)(/(.*))? /var/www/webXX/user/$1/web/$3
    AliasMatch ^/users/([^/]+)(/(.*))? /var/www/webXX/user/$1/web/$3
    (btw: what are this aliases for?)

    Is it possible to put it somewhere in the code to create rewrite automatically for each VirtualHost?
     
    Last edited: May 12, 2007
  3. falko

    falko Super Moderator Howtoforge Staff

    Take a look at chapter 2.2.9 on http://ispconfig.org/downloads/manual_en/manual_kunde_en_src.htm#4_2_2 .

    You can modify the function make_vhost() in /root/ispconfig/scripts/lib/config.lib.php.
     
  4. radim_h

    radim_h Member HowtoForge Supporter

  5. falko

    falko Super Moderator Howtoforge Staff

  6. radim_h

    radim_h Member HowtoForge Supporter

    .

    So why it is in there? .o)
     
  7. till

    till Super Moderator Staff Member ISPConfig Developer

    I dont think that it will work without rewrite. The directory:

    http://www.domain.tld/users/testuser/

    is without rewrite:

    /var/www/webXX/web/users/testuser/

    and not:

    /var/www/webXX/users/testuser/

    The directory of the users is outside of the document root of the website.
     
  8. falko

    falko Super Moderator Howtoforge Staff

  9. LeoXavior

    LeoXavior New Member

    Hey Radim, thx for this idea.. I am very interested in getting this setup on my system...
    I'm trying to follow you're directions but im unclear on the dns/cname directions..

    This is what I have done so far:
    1) Set users to be created thru [DOMAIN]_
    2) Created file: /etc/apache2/user_rewrite.conf
    3) Inserted into user_rewrite.conf:
    Code:
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} !^www\.
    RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} !^mail\.
    RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} ^([^.]*)\.(.*\..*)$
    RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://www.%2/users/%2_%1/$1 [P]
    
    4) Added Include user_rewrite.conf into my sites default apache directives
    5) Restarted apache2
    6) Created user: serverhash.com_testuser
    7) Added CNAME:
    Code:
    Hostname Target
    testuser testuser.serverhash.com
    
    Complete DNS setup is as follows:
    Code:
     
      A Record 
      IP-Adresse  	  Hostname 
      72.148.231.196  	  www 
     
      CNAME 
      Hostname  	  Target 
      testuser  	  testuser.serverhash.com 
     
      MX 
      Mailserver  	  Hostname 
      www.serverhash.com  	   
      mail.serverhash.com  	  mail
    
    Works:
    http://www.serverhash.com/users/serverhash.com_testuser/
    http://www.serverhash.com/~serverhash.com_testuser/

    Does not work:
    http://testuser.serverhash.com/

    Can you see anything im doing wrong. any help is appreciated.
     
  10. radim_h

    radim_h Member HowtoForge Supporter

    Oh, i forget (changed now my first howto a bit)
    In ISP manager click on your site, then go to "Co-domains" and add
    yourIP testuser serverhash.com

    and your CNAME is wrong, it has to be
    CNAME
    Hostname Target
    testuser serverhash.com



    I preffer
    add co-domain
    MyIP * mydomain.tld

    and have DNS record
    CNAME
    Hostname Target
    * mydomain.tld

    then you don't have to care about each user apache will process anything.yourdomain.com
     
    Last edited: May 16, 2007
  11. LeoXavior

    LeoXavior New Member

    Quick question for radmin_h..

    When you are creating the co-domain for * example.com are you checking the option for ISPConfig to create the DNS records for you?

    I'm still having problems with getting it to re-write, using a recently updated ISPConfig setup with the same details from above, i'm including the user_rewrite.conf in the Apache Directives in ISPConfig via:
    Code:
    RewriteEngine On
    Include /etc/apache2/user_rewrite.conf
    
    My DNS info for my domain currently:
    Code:
    A Record 
      IP-Adresse  	  Hostname 
      72.148.231.196  	  www 
     
      CNAME 
      Hostname  	  Target 
      *  	  serverhash.com 
     
      MX 
      Mailserver  	  Hostname 
      www.serverhash.com  	  www 
      www.serverhash.com  	   
    
      SPF 
    Hostname
    serverhash.com
    
    Does this appear to be correct?
     

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    Last edited: May 25, 2007
  12. radim_h

    radim_h Member HowtoForge Supporter

    Im not sure about path to user_rewrite.conf
    I have it in my apache ServerRoot (which is /etc/httpd check yours in httpd.conf) and included it without path just
    Include user_rewrite.conf

    You have to discover it in your distro .)



    No, i'm writing DNS records by myself, and anyway it will create A record, it is suposed to be * CNAME example.com

    you also dont need 72.148.231.196 www ( * CNAME example.com is taking care of www)

    My DNS looks like this:

    A Record
    IP-Adresse Hostname
    (empty, A record for example.com is allready created, see bind records in /var/named/chroot/var/named)

    CNAME
    Hostname Target
    * example.com
    mail mail.myhosting.cz

    MX
    Mailserver Hostname
    10 mail.myhosting.cz
    20 mailbackup.myhosting.cz
     
    Last edited: May 28, 2007
  13. LeoXavior

    LeoXavior New Member

    Thanks again, that got it working properly =)
     
  14. garymaurizi

    garymaurizi New Member

    help!

    how could i do this if webmail is in /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/web/roundcubemail/

    It is outside of the document root. Using Mod_Rewrite seems to break roundcube & it wont login? & mail.anydomain.tld is not working for me?

    I used the ispconfig update function to install roundcube, and it defaults to https://anydomain.tld:81/roundcubemail/index.php

    I would like mail.anydomain.tld to use http on port 80 not https @ port 81, I've currently in user_rewrite.conf:


    (user.anydomain.tld redirection does work fine).

    I would like to be able to login @ both mail.anydomain.com && https://anydomain.tld:81/roundcubemail/index.php

    perhaps there is a way to do something like this with user_rewrite.conf to forward 80 to 81@https for both security and client convienence also? Ive seen mod_rewrite and simmiliar forward port.
     
    Last edited: Jan 3, 2008
  15. falko

    falko Super Moderator Howtoforge Staff

    This might be interesting for you: http://www.howtoforge.com/apache_reverse_proxy_ispconfig
     
  16. garymaurizi

    garymaurizi New Member

    Thanks falko

    EDIT: Simple confusion, please see next post.
     
    Last edited: Jan 3, 2008
  17. garymaurizi

    garymaurizi New Member

    mod_rewrite gives me a headache ;o/

    Update: Took a crash course in mod_rewrite & got the url mask working,
    As a side note, if you are using ispconfig with global php disabled you will need to do the following (i don't know how elegant or secure this is) to get the roundcube login to show up @ mail.anydomain.tld

    <Directory /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/web/roundcubemail/>
    php_admin_value open_basedir none
    </Directory>


    however now that mail.anydomain.tld functions to serve the roundcube mail login page through Leo's rewrite conditions, I can not login through roundcube @ mail.anydomain.tld, I get a 404, roundcube log shows...

    ???????


    UPDATE: Works fine!!!! sorry , there was a rogue .httaccess file in */roundcube! silly me.
     
    Last edited: Jan 4, 2008
  18. amoniak

    amoniak New Member

    hello

    I am using this mod on some accounts and I have a question:

    http://user.domain.tld (third level domain) works fine, but how can I configure it to be also working for http://www.user.domain.tld ?

    any help would be greatly appreciated!

    many thx!
     
  19. garymaurizi

    garymaurizi New Member

    Fairly certain this is not possible, you can attempt to alter the rewrite rules to pull this off but that would require you to treat & parse every instance of www. as a level 2 subdomain which would essentially bust www.domain.tld and fix www.user.domain.tld.

    However, creating a new site with its own DNS records for each user.domain.tld with a *.user.domain.tld co-domain(sub) should allow this. (unfortunetally thats the only way I can think to accomplish this). If you manage to figure out a more elegant solution please let me know!

    Best of luck,
    Gary Maurizi.
     

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