: How to create a subdomain using a script How can one create a new subdomain using a script? Creating a new database or database table is something I'm familiar with. If this is not possible,

@Gretchen104

If you are using cPanel you can use the xmlapi class github.com/CpanelInc/xmlapi-php.
You then invoke it like this:

require("xmlapi.php"); // this can be downloaded from github.com/CpanelInc/xmlapi-php/blob/master/xmlapi.php $xmlapi = new xmlapi("your-primary-domain.com");
$xmlapi->set_port( 2083 );
$xmlapi->password_auth('username','password'); //cpanel credentials
$xmlapi->set_debug(0);//output actions in the error log 1 for true and 0 false

// create subdomain
print $xmlapi->api1_query('accountname','SubDomain','addsubdomain',array('subdomain.domain.com',0,0,'/public_html/location.of.the.web.files'));

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@Mendez628

What exactly do you mean by subdomain? Just the entry in the DNS System or the whole handling of the subdomain (which is just a hostname).

You can set a wildcard DNS entry so every hostname.yourdomain.com is set to your webserver e.g.:

*.example.com IN A 123.123.123.123

so everything.example.org would be resolved to 123.123.123.123 except you specified a entry for the URL.

Your Apache vhost needs to accept every hostname of the domain

ServerName example.com
ServerAlias *.example.com

Everything else is handled by .htaccess files using mod_rewrite and PHP routers.

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