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Geek Culture / Dark Basic Games Update + Free Subdomains

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Robin
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Posted: 8th Sep 2006 01:08 Edited at: 8th Sep 2006 01:09
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Hi everyone.

Just to update on a few things:

- http://www.darkbasicgames.com has now been re-written in PHP (At last!). Making it much easier to update and manage. Also added a few new games (Feel free to submit your own!)

- I can now offer FREE SUBDOMAINS. I've noticed a lot of people have freewebs addresses or similar long and cheapo domains which don't look so nice. What I can offer as an alternative is:

yourname.darkbasicgames.com

which will automatically forward to your current website. I have set one up to demonstrate:

http://www.robin.darkbasicgames.com

links to the TGC homepage.

If you are interested in having your own subdomain, just reply in this post or send me an email (webmaster@darkbasicgames.com) with what you want the domain to be and the address you want it to link to.

- Finally, I have a little link button thing you can pop on your website if you like



Cheers,

Robin


http://www.robinsgames.com http://www.darkbasicgames.com
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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 8th Sep 2006 01:26
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You need a thank you html file after submitting your forms + your php script goes mental if you remove the name from the url arguement, eg:
http://www.darkbasicgames.com/games.php?gametitle=

plus

http://www.robin.darkbasicgames.com

doesn't do anything for me...

Just thought you might like to know!

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Lukas W
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Posted: 8th Sep 2006 09:57
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this is great news!
i will add a link to this website from my homepage if it's allright?

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Robin
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Posted: 8th Sep 2006 10:52
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Yes of course

Knew I forgot something - thankyou page now submitted.

About the subdomains...I figured out

http://robin.darkbasicgames.com

works, but the addition of the www. stops it from working hmm...


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Lukas W
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Posted: 8th Sep 2006 10:55 Edited at: 8th Sep 2006 11:09
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that is probably because it thinks www. is a subdomain of robin.?

edit,
http://lukasw.com/?page=links yey

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spooky
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Posted: 8th Sep 2006 11:24
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subdomains don't use the www prefix. Shame but that's just the way they work.

Boo!
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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 8th Sep 2006 11:27
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It depends what redirects you're using. I assume Apache VHosts, in which case, you've probably specified the server name as robin.blah.com but not www.robin.blah.com... Try adding a server alias line with www.robin.blah.com.

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VR2
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Posted: 8th Sep 2006 11:40
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Nice - congrats on the site update

I notice you can get a broken "gallery" image sometimes on the home page (just refresh a few times to see what I mean).

And if it's free, then a subdomain victory-road.darkbasicgames.com pointing to www.victory-road.co.uk would be very nice. Thank you
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Robin
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Posted: 8th Sep 2006 11:44 Edited at: 8th Sep 2006 11:46
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hmm.. I'm using servage.net hosting. I've created a virtual host with hostname 'robin.darkbasicgames.com' and document root '/darkbasicgames.com/subdomains/robin' (in this folder is an index.html file which automatically redirects to the website).

I've also tried creating another virtual host with hostname 'www.robin.darkbasicgames.com' and pointing to the same document root, but as you can see, you get a server not found message.

I'll contact customer support in a min, unless if anyone else has any ideas?

Edit: thanks - I'll set that up for you in a minute. I know about the random games on the home page - am trying to fix it


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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 8th Sep 2006 12:19 Edited at: 8th Sep 2006 12:21
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I told you - in the VHost, put www.robin.blah.com down as a ServerAlias (alongside the current ServerName) of robin.blah.com.
Also - you dont need a document root or index file. In the VHost, you should be able to use a "Redirect Permanent" command. Saves a hit on the server and bandwidth to you. Check the Apache docs.

I'm gonna be honest - if you cant setup a simple vhost like that - are you capable of multi-site hosting like this?

How are you securing accounts? Are you chroot-ing users? Will apache be locked so PHP cant go up the folder heirarchy?

I'm also basing this on the fact that your site crashes horribly if you follow the link I gave in the first post. Either you were in one hell of a rush when writing that script or you're still learning how to make websites.

I dont mean to be rude of offensive - this is a very generous offer... But I get the impression you dont entirely know what you're doing.

EDIT: Here is the redirect page you need...

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Robin
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Posted: 8th Sep 2006 12:48 Edited at: 8th Sep 2006 12:54
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Yes, I'm still new to PHP I'm just trying to offer a service to the community. I'm not offering to host sites for people, just offer a redirecting subdomain for some people stuck with freewebs/geocities etc. domains. I know I would have been greatful of such an opportunity before I went and brought my domain names.

I'll admit I don't understand half of what you said. On my account I can go to 'new virtual host' and then I'm asked to enter the subdomain and select one of my domains from a list. Then I have to enter 'Link to Path' and click ok. That's all the options given to me. Once created, the only other options given are PHP safe mode, PHP safe mode GID, PHP Register Globals on/off. That's it. I've got subdomains working for the people who have asked for them so far, just they don't work with www... If you can explain what a server alias is to me that would be great

Edit: I've fixed that bug you were talking about. Thanks.


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Robin
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Posted: 8th Sep 2006 13:44
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hehehe - works now:

http://www.robin.darkbasicgames.com
http://robin.darkbasicgames.com

Must have just been taking it's time for the settings to kick in. The other subdomains I've set up should be working soon too.

Robin


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Kentaree
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Posted: 8th Sep 2006 19:53
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It takes upto 48 hours for dns changes to propogate

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