Wildcard subdomain, file manager, ...

[fpinedoh]

I'm testing a server with Sentora but I have some doubts ...
Is it possible to create subdomains with wildcard (*)?
When domains or subdomains are generated is not possible to assign them to an existing folder in a domain? (not the main client or domain)
Is there an application to manage the files within each account or domain?

[TGates]

If you click 'Use existing home directory' when adding a subdomain is lists all available folders...??

To manage files, use FTP accounts!

[fpinedoh]

Indeed, it shows me only the main folders for each domain. But I need to direct the subdomain to an internal folder (subfolder).

About handling of files. Other payment control panels allow you to run these tasks from the server, making them much faster and more efficient, such as decompression / compression, move files between folders, etc. This option will be considered in the future?

[TGates]

For example: folder /domain_root/sub_domain/ correct?
Currently ZPanel does not allow for this since it is using a subfolder  rather than subdomain. 
You can access subfolders like so: domain.com/subfolder/ (No real need to hassle with a subdomain if this is the case)

And if it is a subsubfolder, (ex: /domain_root/sub_folder/folder_to_show/ then you can use a .htaccess file to rewrite the url to the intended folder so it would appear it is in the next folder like: domain.com/folder_to_show/.


There are other 3rd party modules that can do this. We will just have to get them updated to this site though (they were all on the ZP site)

[fpinedoh]

I appreciate your comments ... I try to better understand this control panel and I am making comparisons with others I know.

What about statement with wildcard subdomain, you have a solution? Some applications, such as leverage WordPress to create hits on multisite blogs.

[Lateral]

Hey,

I had the exact same problems. I need to assign a different document root and I need a wildcard subdomain entry for my domain. It was not possible using the UI, but with some tricks and the Virtual Host override settings.

So in order to select a different home directory I chose "select existing home directory", manipulated the HTML select/option element using my browsers (Chrome) developer tools and simply changed

Code:

<option value="">/ (root)</option>

to

Code:

<option value="example.com/public">/ (root)</option>

(of course I had this option selected!) on the "Create a new domain" form and submitted.

There really should be another input to specify a custom home directory! I don't think there's anything not working with having different homes set. It's a 5-minute-task to modify the form and script to handle this correctly I guess.

To assign a wildcard subdomain using the VirtualHost settings, go to "Admin -> Module Admin -> Apache Config", scroll down, select the VirtualHost you want to have a wildcard subdomain entry and add the following ServerAlias:

Code:

ServerAlias *.example.com

And you might have to change the open_basedir there, too, if your website needs to include PHP scripts from outside the home directory, as I had to. Because the default value will be your home directory. So you can override the value for the vhost here, too:

Code:

php_admin_value open_basedir "/var/zpanel/hostdata/your_user/public_html/example.com/:/var/zpanel/temp/