Questions tagged [wildcard-subdomain]
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Non-dot-wildcard (*-foo.example.com) for bind?
It seems there's no way to tell bind that *-foo.example.com should resolve to eg. 10.1.2.3, while *-bar.example.com resolves to 10.2.3.4. Is there any workaround? Can some names eg. resolve with an ...
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Any drawbacks to AWS certificate manager wildcard certificates?
Let's say I'm using AWS Certificate Manager to get a certificate for example.com for use with AWS CloudFront. I can specify an alternate domain of www.example.com and point it to another CloudFront ...
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Can DNS host records be setup to create wildcard sub-subdomains
Is it possible to create a wildcard host record for a sub-subdomain ie *.foo.example.com?
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Do SSL Certs containing two wildcards work (esp. on Let's Encrypt)? [duplicate]
I want to include two wildcards in an SSL cert (will be) signed by Let's Encrypt: *.*.thost3.de. Will this cert match any hostnames matching that rule (e.g. example.example.thost3.de, hello.world....
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Best way to add a DNS wildcard record for a domain
What is the best way to add a DNS wildcard record for a domain?
I want example.net, www.example.net, a.b.c.www.example.net, ... going to one server.
Now I use:
example.net. 60 IN A 1.2.3....
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Difference between wild card SSL [duplicate]
I have deployed SSL certificates on various websites however this wildcard SSL certificate is totally new to me. I have question that If I am buying a SSL certificate *.example-private.com, Will it ...
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Wildcard subdomain directory names
I have the following in my Apache config:
<VirtualHost *:80>
VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/hosts/%0
ServerAlias *.test.galapagos.office
</VirtualHost>
In /var/www/hosts, I have a ...
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Is stage.*.example.com valid for a wildcard DNS CNAME?
We are creating a web app that will have vanity subdomains such as user1.example.com. Since we'll have many subdomains, they need to be dynamic. We want to have a public "stage" area where we can test ...
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In Nginx, map specific subdomains to ports, redirect all others
I'm trying to accomplish three things:
Map traffic, by subdomain, to one of several applications on different ports.
If subdomain isn't recognized, redirect to www.
Require HTTPS on all subdomains.
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Wildcard certificates with short hostnames?
I'm trying to generate a certificate with the following subjectAltName:
hostname
*.hostname
hostname.mydomain.local
*.hostname.mydomain.local
I generate the CSR via OpenSSL and then get the ...
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Double Wildcard SSL Certificates
Is there a registar that offers SSL certificates for:
..domain.com
or
something_fixed.*.domain.com?
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Can I use nested DNS wildcard records
I would like to have multiple dns entries with wildcards such that one entry is nested as subdomain of another
CNAME *.example.com -> webserver.example.com
CNAME *.api.example.com -> apiserver....
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How to set up a DNS to use a catch-all address?
This is not really a programming question, it's more about settings that I can alter visually.
I have bought a domain and am wondering how I can get it work in such a way that everything before the ....
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Make Lighttpd return 404 for unused subdomains?
I have some domains set up on my Ubuntu server that uses Lighttpd. I have wildcard domains and I want the unused subdomains to return 404 instead of 200 and displaying the regular domain. This problem ...
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How do I configure a wildcard DNS record correctly in Windows Server 2012?
I'm trying to configure a DNS server for domain.com. I want to configure a wildcard DNS record to resolve any-subdomain.domain.com to a single IP address (172.16.1.3). In my DNS server I have the ...
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is wildcard ssl insecure?
Is there anything inherently more insecure about using a wildcard SSL certificate over a regular SSL certificate?
We are looking to implement a subdomained web application (a la FreshBooks and ...
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AWS ELB endpoint in Godaddy
I have my domain name regsitered in Godaddy. I have my servers in AWS. We use a public ELB to redirect traffic to our webservers inside a VPC in a public subnet. I want to point one of my subdomain ...
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Can a DNS wildcard only be the leftmost part of a record?
I'm using TinyDNS, and have successfully used wildcard records of the form:
+*.<domain>:<ip>
(+ for A records.)
Can I also use:
+development.*.<domain>:<ip>
?
My ...
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Let's Encrypt certificate to cover both wildcard subdomains and root-domain
I'm running a server under example.com domain and I have sub-domains like:
a.example.com
b.example.com
I'm creating certificate from Let's Encrypt with zerossl online tools and I have an issue. ...
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Redirect all subdomains to main domain with HTTPS without a wildcard cert (nginx)
I have a domain name with a main site and a few vhosts. I want all sites (main and vhosts) to only be accessible through HTTPS (using HSTS), and I want non-existing subdomains to be redirected to the ...
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ServerName not working in Apache2 and Ubuntu
Setting up a dev LAMP server and I wish to allow dynamic subdomains, aka ted.servername.com, bob.servername.com.
Here's my sites-active file
<VirtualHost *:80>
# Admin Email, Server Name, ...
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Dynamic Error and Custom logs in apache 2 using wildcard subdomains
I'm trying to make a wildcard VirtualHost conf file for apache2, and I'm not sure how to handle the ErrorLog and CustomLog settings to put the logs where I want them to go. As you can see in the ...
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Apache2 with wildcard subdomains of the form sub.*.domain.tld
I currently have Apache2 configured to host wildcarded subdomains of the form *.domains.tld, where the * is unique for each client we have.
Each client has an 'admin' page that they can log into, ...
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Automatic wildcard subdomains on Apache
Currently I have several virtual hosts set up for individual subdomains. It would be a lot easier if I could tell Apache to automatically find the folder using a wildcard. For example, hello.domain....
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Redirect wildcard subdomain to same subdomain on different domain
I have a domain with dynamic subdomains. The domain, unfortunately, has changed. As such I need to redirect
*.domain1.com
to
*.domain2.com
while keeping the subdomains the same. I have looked ...
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Possible reasons for occasionally inaccessible domains
I'm experiencing symptoms similar to those of the other question. That is, peoples are complaining about a domain name being inaccessible. And then, it suddenly starts working after a while. But I ...
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Wild card sub-domain routing in Apache
I've noticed some hosting providers have Apache setup so that if I create a directory (foo.example.com) Apache will automatically know that the DNS entry for foo.example.com routes to that document ...
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SSL wildcard certificates and "www" sub-subdomains
I've got a wildcard SSL certificate for *.example.com.
I'm using Nginx, and redirecting all traffic for HTTP to HTTPS, and also rewriting the URLs to remove a www subdomain (if there is one).
So it ...
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Can wildcard and single domain certificate coexist for the same domain
Because we have externally hosted applications by vendors under specific sub-domains (vendor1.domain.org, vendor2.domain.org...), we would like to keep single certificates for these sub-domains while ...
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How to automatically redirect subdomain.domain to domain/subdomain [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Apache Virtual Host redirect from subdomain to subdirectory
Without access to cpanel, apache conf files and only access to .htacess and FTP, how can I create a hosting site ...
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Virtual domains with wildcard?
I would like to setup postfix to catch all emails from both: domain.tld & [randomsubdomain].domain.tld.
/((\w[\w\-]*)\.)+domain\.tld/ OK
This rule works very good, but unfortunately it's ...
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Possible to point wildcard subdomain to top level domain via DNS settings?
Is it possible to point wildcard subdomains to a top level domain via DNS settings alone?
I would like to have *.mydomain.com redirected to mydomain.com.
mydomain.com is hosted on a 3rd service. I ...
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Using Let's Encrypt Wildcard Certificate on Multiple Servers
I have a series of subdomains that are a part of a root domain I manage. I have set up certbot on one of these domains: x.example.com and it is successfully using the certificate and renewing it ...
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Is it possible to configure Nginx to allow for new domains to be added without me having to add a VirtualHost for each?
I have a SaaS application wherein users can enter their domain names. The application uses the hostname of incoming requests to determine the account based on the domain they entered for their account,...
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Azure Application Gateway limitations - wildcard SSL cert
We have ~60 client apps, each with its own subdomain URL in a common domain, i.e. client1.domainname.com, client2.domainname.com... - all covered by a single wildcard SSL cert *.domainname.com. ...
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Redirect all subdomains to main domain inside vhost
I simply want to redirect all subdomains that are not not already mentioned in a vhost's ServerName to redirect to the empty sub domain. I tried to add this to my httpd.conf after all other virtual ...
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Does a wilcard subdoman get DNS cached?
If one adds a Wildcard subdomain entry in the DNS Zone, for example:
*.example.com. 3600 IN A <Some IP>
How much of a query for say somerandomsubdomain.example.com be cached?
After some ...
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Sharing two SSL certificates with as wildcard and root domains in nginx (same server)
I have purchased a wildcard certificate and a single certificate for my domain structure which is:
app.example.com => single
*.app.example.com => wildcard
Both these routes should point to the ...
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Can I have a DNS wildcard binding in multiple servers?
I have a Win 2k8 server that hosts multiple IIS apps that are under one domain, example.com. The need for a second server has increased and will need to get more servers to host my apps.
On my server,...
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Nginx - Redirect any Subdomain to File without Rewriting
Recently I have switched from Apache to Nginx to increase performance on a web server running Ubuntu 11.10. I have been having issues trying to figure out how certain things work in Nginx compared to ...
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Does pointing *.[int].mydomain.com to 192.168.1.[int] constitute a security threat
For testing purposes, I've found it's really useful to point whatever.machineIP.mydomain.com to 192.168.1.machineIP : that way we can test each other's code without fidgetting with hosts files.
I'm ...
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How to get Exim to accept mail for subdomains?
I'm trying to use subdomains with Exim, but If I send a test message to any address other fqdn than my basic domain name it gets bounced with a relay error. I can send and login to both Dovecot and ...
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Is a wildcard CNAME DNS record valid in multi sub-domains?
I have a CNAME record like this:
*.a IN CNAME example.com.
So, any address that ends with .a.example.com points to example.com (like www.a.example.com, x.y.z.a.example.com, etc).
I add ...
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automatic MX entries for (almost) all hosts within a domain
i'm running a DNS-server for example.com, with multiple A/CNAME records pointing to different IP-addresses.
@ IN A 198.51.100.1
a IN A 198.51.100.3
b ...
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Multi-level wildcard DNS matched by *.domain.com?
Q1: Does a DNS rule for *.domain.com match multi-level domain names? In other words, if I just set *.domain.com in my DNS records, will it match all of:
a.domain.com
b.a.domain.com
c.b.a.domain.com
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ISPConfig - Unexisting subdomain address goes to an existing one [closed]
I am running Nginx/ISPConfig setup for about 6-7 months. Never had a problem and everything is smooth.
But I just noticed that if browse to "blab.example.com", the page opens one of my wordpress ...
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DNS wildcard and /etc/resolv.conf problem
I searched through google.com but can't find an answer... So I asked here.
This is the problem:
I build a DNS test environment on my PC which hostname is gamepc.
The DNS server (bind9) has a ...
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Switch MS O365 name servers to another dns hosting service?
Currently we have client which is using Office365 for DNS hosting and also for email delivery.
The domain is registered at an external registrar, but unfortunally the MS name servers have been used in ...
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Bind9 virtual subdomains
I am trying to setup virtual subdomains using Bind9, following this tutorial.. http://groups.drupal.org/node/16862 which I've completed. Basically setting up the zone and modifying the resolv.conf ...
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Nginx Subdomains and Rewrite Rules
I've been trying to configure Nginx to do what I currently have set up in Apache, but no luck so far.
I would like http://$1.$2.mas.example.com (where $1 and $2 is any subdomain) to point to root ...
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