I want to allow users to create name path websites on my domain. I don't want them to have to use any sort of cPanel, rather just enter basic information in a form and have automation take care of the rest. Does anyone know if bitnami or softalicious or whatever has an API that can run behind the scenes to automatically create name path websites on our IP with unique subdomains/domains?
We can code from scratch but I'd certainly like to take advantage of any tools that exist if there are one's.
Thanks in advance.
Related
Excuse my lack of server architecture knowledge, but I'm a bit confused on what applications, servers, environments, etc.. are and how they can communicate with each other. I just got AWS and here is what I want to do ultimately.
I want to create a Google Chrome extension. For simplicity, lets say that I'm trying to make an app that records the number of times that all users with the extension collectively visit a given webpage plus information about the visits, such as the time they visited and duration. So if I go to Facebook.com and 100 other people with the extension did, I would see an iframe, lets say, that says "100 users have been here and they visited at these times: ...". Of course, the extension also needs to communicate with the server to increase the count by one. The point is, there is no need to visit any webpage for this app to work since it's an extension and the point isn't to go to a webpage, although it still returns HTML and Javascript.
Now, I also want a homepage for the app in case people are interested in the extension for whatever reason. Just like Adblock, you don't need to go to their actual website, but it's good to have one.
My question is, how do I set this up? Do I just have a normal website, ie. www.example.com/ and set it up normally with Wordpress (what I'd like to use) then just designate one address, ie www.example.com/app, to be answered by my Python app? If so, how do I do that? What do I need in AWS? I'm familiar with Flask and have written apps on my local server using it—can that be integrated with Wordpress?
Sorry if this is confusing.
I also want a homepage for the app in case people are interested in
the extension
The simplest is to host the home page as a static website (Html, css, js) in an S3 bucket.
But if you really want WordPress, you can do that too.
For Backend web services for your plugin to talk to, you can use Elastic Beanstalk, it is a very simple way to do that, without tinkering all the components yourself.
I've currently got a reasonably large site up that i've been asked to make changes to.
Currently To login to this site you need to go to:
www.example.com/folder/loginpage.html
This site is only accessible internally at this time and it is unlikely to ever be accessible externally.
We would like to, however, be able to direct external users to a sub-directory on the site (a 'survey' form) which is located in
www.example.com/folder/subfolder/survey.html
This survey writes its results back to the main application and i believe they are integrated tightly.
We initially tried the idea of using an additional IIS7 box as a reverse proxy however it is quite confusing to me, i'm not very familiar with IIS/ARR and the other features required (i'm mostly familiar with networking). I did try and follow a number of tutorials but didn't get very far. I'd like to avoid it if possible.
How can I, using IIS7 (this site is in ASP.NET) restrict external users from accessing anything other than the survey pages (there are a few included files necessary as well)?
Is it possible to make www.example.com/folder/subfolder/survey.html a 'website' in-itself so that i can publish a URL like survey.example.com externally?
I've come across other examples where access is restricted from specific pages but the root of the site is still accessible
ie
www.eg.com/ is allowed but www.eg.com/admin.aspx is denied. I'd like to the the reverse in effect, and if possible, hide the 'true' url.
Hope someone can help! If using a reverse proxy is possible i'm happy to do it but i'd need detailed instructions.
Thanks for reading,
Much appreciated!
Edit: Sorry all, I'm new to stackoverflow, indeed I've just realised that there are several other sub-communities. Is it more appropriate to ask this in a different community? If so, which one?
Thanks!
my application will have a subdomain per customer to show their logo and some other stuff:
company1.service.com
company2.service.com
I'm trying to see what's the best way to work during development:
configure the development machine HOST file to do some mapping, so I can access company1.localhost etc.
Use some kind of secret config flag which the app will check to determine what is the overriden domain
Do not use subdomains at all (even on production) and prefer query string
I think #1 should be ok for me just trying to see if anyone has bad experience with it or good with the other options.
I would use the first option because it is simple to setup and will reflect your target architecture. The third option is also simple to setup but it will differ from your actual scenario so you might need to make last minute changes before shipping which is never a good thing.
I currently develop Drupal web sites using its multi-site feature that allows me to have a single code base and support multiple distinct settings per each site.
I set up a dev server and I was quite happy with my arrangement of domains like example.com.local (not that happy because I had to perform a small conversion before entering production, but still quite happy) and the thing used to work well. Too bad I recently started to work at places outside the LAN in which my dev server resides--mostly at clients' places where I need to demo their sites. First of all I set up a dyndns.org account and the server is accessible through the Internet.
Unfortunately the whole domain-based multi-site ungracefully fell down, since I'm now accessing the server via myservername.dyndns.org and Drupal's algorithm takes the domain name into account, so I'm forced to use at least the TLD as part of the directory name (namely sites/local.example.com). So I decided to switch to directory-based multi-site, and now I'm able to access my server from inside the LAN using myservername.local/example.com (having renamed the sites/ subdirectories accordingly). You should easily see why this is suboptimal, since when I browse to myservername.dyndns.org/example.com Drupal looks for sites/org.example.com. I temporarily ended up making a link from sites/org.example.com to sites/local.example.com but again, this does not scale well If and when I'll have to drop dyndns.org for, say, dev.mycorporatesite.com...
Is there any other possibility? I have full access to the server, I can change Apache2's configs, .htaccess and all the stuff.
I would recommend against referencing drupal multisites in folders but instead would set up your server to have a fixed domain name and each site in a subdomain.
So your dev server is at mydevserver.com
and then each site could be
client1.mydevserver.com
client2.mydevserver.com
etc.
If you also at the same time as creating these, you move the files folder from the default to whatever the live site will be i.e.
sites/livesite.com/files
Then when you have to go live, all the references will be correct (if you are drupal 7 this might not be an issue)
I want to create a multi-tenant application that uses the hostname to determine the customer.
For example:
CustomerOne.myapp.com
AnotherCo.myapp.com
AndOneMore.myapp.com
...
I can do the database and security side with no problems, I can also get the hostname from the URL, but what I am struggling to find out is how to create the basic plumbing that would allow a new customer to sign up online, provide their company name, and for the application to create the new URL, ready to be used straight away.
Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Rob.
I can't answer this exactly, but I can break it down a little bit.
To set up a new generic subdomain something.myapp.com you'll need to do two things:
1) Programmatically add some new DNS entries via your ISP so that something.myapp.com points to your web server.
2) Programmatically set the local bindings in IIS so that something.myapp.com gets directed to the right website/virtual directory/application
There is some discussion of setting IIS binding programmatically here, which also links through to this forum post here, which mentions that appcmd.exe can be used to set IIS config at run time.
Hope this points you in the right direction ...