how to capture sub-domain traffic?

[RealNames]

I am losing lots of visitors on several sites where the old site run by the prior site owner heavily used sub-domains. These are some dropped domains I got using pool.com.

Do not know the names of the sub-domains. So my question is how can I capture visitors and send them to my index page of those going to the sub-domains, similar to 404 errors to non-working htm pages?

Is there something in the CP to do that, or as an alternative, an htaccess that works for sub-domians too?

 

[RealNames]

Anyone know how?

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

You'll need to add a dns A record:

* A 1.2.3.4

where 1.2.3.4 is your IP. Then in the custom httpd.conf tool, add:

ServerAlias *.|DOMAIN|

The feature can be accessed from Admin Panel -> Admin Settings -> Custom httpd.conf

John

 

[RealNames]

When I go to the DNS Settings menu and try to click the white box next to A it is unclickable for some odd reason. If I try to Modify MX Records it says "Cannot modify MX records...You do not have permission to add records to your zone"

P.S. I am both the Admin & The Reseller so I have no idea why permission would be denied.

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

That just means the User account doesn't have dns control. You can either set it up from Admin Panel -> DNS Admin -> domain.com .. or else you can enable "DNS Control" for the User account. Reseller Panel -> List / Modify Accounts -> username OR "Modify your own User data" if it's yourself -> check DNS Control -> Save

John