blogging host setup with subdomains

[buster]

Hi all. I'm a newby to LifeType but managed to install LifeType 1.2.9. After searching for some answers here in the forum and the faq I'm still in the dark about some things.

What do I want to accomplish?
My goal is to become a blogging host where everyone can create a blog. The user name must become the subdomain.

Found the appropriate settings in (have to translate because my setup is in dutch), settings, general, subdomains_base_url to http://{username}.mydomain.nl
My Url is rewriting correctly to for example, http://buster.mydomain.nl/index.php?blogId=2
But now I have this error,

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Not Found
The requested URL /index.php?blogId=2 was not found on this server.

Found several topics on this,
http://forums.lifetype.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=9554
http://forums.lifetype.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=9437
http://forums.lifetype.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=9341

But it is still unclear to me if I need a wildcard DNS or not. Or all rewriting is handled in .htaccess.

If I need to setup my server with a wildcard DNS then how do I do that?
If a wildcard DNS is not needed, then how do I proceed?

[jondaley]

You do need wildcard DNS records. How you set it up depends on your DNS host and web host. You need to ask them if it is possible. You need each subdomain to point to the same directory as the main domain. (some DNS/web hosts make the subdomains point to subdirectories).

[buster]

During the Christmas holiday I picked up my LifeType project and now I have succesfully set up LifeType as a multi blogging service with a wildcard dns for subdomains.

For anyone who is using the Dutch translation please pay attention to the following. Some program variables are also translated into Dutch. But LifeType must use the original English variable names. Example {username} is wrongly translated into {gebruikersnaam}!!!

[jondaley]

Please submit new translation files to bugs.lifetype.net, and we can upload them. We don't have anyway to test lots of the translations we get, so we depend on folks like you to fix them.

[buster]

I will correct the available Dutch translation, additionally I will translate the plugins. But first I want to finish a second project, setting up an ad service.

[jondaley]

Is that ads via lifetype? There is a plugin for ads somewhere around.

[buster]

No it's not especially for LifeType, but may well be used in the future with LifeType. It is a text advertisement exchange system which can be used to set up your own ad and then display it on all websites who joined the system. At the moment the service is for Dutch websites only, but I might set up an International service for this in the future.