Help Me Develop My Idea/ Multi-City

[sammyman]

I just found pligg.com today and I am really excited. I want to create a pligg site with a few cities as different categories. Could I have each city be a category, with subcategories for each city as well? I want to have the homepage default to the bay area, or have a list of a handful of cities that people can pligg on. Will this work? How should I go about making a multi-city pligg useful? Thanks!

I would love to eventually have:

sf.mysite.com
seattle.mysite.com
ny.mysite.com

[sammyman]

I created a bunch of categories, and have the re-write #2 on, so the categories are as follows:

www.mysite.com/category/sfbay
www.mysite.com/category/la

The problem is that when I create a subdomain, there are no real files at category/sfbay. Is there a way to have separate subdomains for each category?

[chuckroast]

I created a bunch of categories, and have the re-write #2 on, so the categories are as follows:

www.mysite.com/category/sfbay
www.mysite.com/category/la

The problem is that when I create a subdomain, there are no real files at category/sfbay. Is there a way to have separate subdomains for each category?

What I would do is create each location as it's own category then create a subdomain like

sfbay.mysite.com

Then in the subfolder /sfbay create an index.php file and use the following

<?php
header( 'Location: http://mysite.com/category/sfbay ) ;
?>

This way anyone going to

sfbay.mysite.com

will be taken directly to that category..

Hope that helps

[sammyman]

That does help quite a bit. Thank you. I got some error for some reason at first, but now it looks like it is working.

I wonder if there is some re-writing in the .htaccess that could keep it as a subdomain (sfbay.mysite.com), rather than forwarding. I think this could help the SEO of the site....

[chuckroast]

Yes you are right, there are really several ways to go about this, but from my experience most will give you the same result in the end.

[dollars5]

If you are to do using sub-domains - you first need to add an entry for the virtual sub-domains as well - I guess that will go into the http.conf file. This will be simpler than actually creating sub-domains and maintaining them (when you port or upgrade to a new server - it will then turn to a pain in a$$ - but if you just use the combination of http.conf and .htaccess - migration will be smooth as well)

[sammyman]

If you are to do using sub-domains - you first need to add an entry for the virtual sub-domains as well - I guess that will go into the http.conf file. This will be simpler than actually creating sub-domains and maintaining them (when you port or upgrade to a new server - it will then turn to a pain in a$$ - but if you just use the combination of http.conf and .htaccess - migration will be smooth as well)

That sounds way cool, but I don't think I am savy enough to pull it off myself. Can anyone help me figure the http.conf and .htaccess files as shown above?