ASP.NET MVC/IIS 7: Creating dynamic websites (subdomains) with a button click

Question

I'm working on a community forum script, and I want to give every one an opportunity to create their own community forum for free.

So let's say I have the following domain:

www.forum.com

Bob wants to create his forum, he signs up, picks a username ("bob") and gets his own forum instantly: bob.forum.com

There are the things that need to be created automatically:

New subdomain
New IIS site
New database

And I want to use the same script (bin dll and .aspx files). Of course I'd like to update them instantly because if I have 100 subforums, that would be pain in the butt to update all 100 scripts manually.

I know this is a pretty hard thing to do, but I really, really need this.

If you know an article about it, please post a link.

Thanks!

Wyatt Barnett · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-15 19:34:30Z

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Or do you just need one IIS website which tackles this through url rewriting, saving you the headache and security hole of having a web process capable of monkeying around with itself?

answered Aug 15, 2010 at 19:34

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Alex Over a year ago

Yeah, I thought about it. I asked a question on ServerFault: serverfault.com/questions/170755/…

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