[thelist] How to do user.domain.com

[PeterV]

I found the answer to my own question on Safari: use mod_vhost_alias.

In the virtual host, I add
UseCanonicalName Off

And instead of DocumentRoot you write VirtualDocumentRoot. The following
code

/dev/account_htdocs/%1.1/%1

given http://peter.domain.com, resolves to /dev/account_htdocs/p/peter

%0 means give me the whole name: peter.domain.com
%1 means give me the first part of the name: peter
%3 means give me the third part: com
%1.1 means give me the first letter of the first part: p

Using the /p/ subdirectory helps when I get 1000s of users because most
Oss get slow when a directory has 1000s of subdirectories. This approach
spreads it out a bit.

Hope that helps someone :)
Peter