Wildcards

[lnxcode]

A question that we seem to get a lot lately is; you you support wildcards? Well, this is a tricky question... on some services we do and on others we don't. For example, the Base-Host and Tera-Host accounts we don't support wild cards.

Yet, we do support wildcards on the VPS's, and you can find how to set them up here:
HostICan - Support - Pre-Sales, E-Mail, and so many more answers... :: How do I setup a wildcard on my hosting?

[Scott]

Originally Posted by lnxcode

A question that we seem to get a lot lately is; you you support wildcards? Well, this is a tricky question... on some services we do and on others we don't. For example, the Base-Host and Tera-Host accounts we don't support wild cards.

Yet, we do support wildcards on the VPS's, and you can find how to set them up here:
HostICan - Support - Pre-Sales, E-Mail, and so many more answers... :: How do I setup a wildcard on my hosting?

Would you mind explaining what a wildcard is used for and why people need it?

I've always seen the DNS stuff in WHM and have totally ignored it. Edumacate me.

[lnxcode]

Sure. WP MU (WordPress Muti User) depends on wild card subdomains like:

*.domain.com will still resolve to a certain location... for example if you wanted any subdomain (that doesn't really exist to redirect to say your home page?) you can do that
by doing:

*.domain.com and setting it to direct to http://yoursite.com that way I could type:

apple.domain.com
cool.domain.com
matt.domain.com
scott.domain.com
etc..

and they would go to different folders or locations or all to the same place.

[Scott]

Wait, automatically point domain.com/folder1 to folder1.domain.com without having to setup the subdomains via cPanel backend?

Hmm, I actually need this for a future affiliate hosting site I am doing... I'll have to read that FAQ page and IM you later. Haha