I am creating a saas application. Users have their own url like user.mysaasapp.com
To allow user to have own url, I use mod rewrite. Something like http://mysaasapp.com/?user=user to user.mysaasapp.com (This is working perfectly)
Now, I want to give user the flexibility to mask their url. This means that user can direct their subdomain (saas.theirdomain.com) to user.mysaasapp.com. How do i go about doing so.
I read many articles(cname) on this but still have not have a definite solution. I am wondering how big companies like wordpress/google does that.
e.g http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/custom_domains
e.g http://developer.uservoice.com/docs/site/domain-aliasing/
I realize that companies would take this process:
- Get user to add cname
- Get user to enter their domain in the saas app (maybe under custom domain)
What is needed from me the get this working? Thanks!