express-subdomain-handler takes the headache out of dynamic subdomain routing in Express. It captures the contents of any subdomain and writes them into the Express req.url
. This means you can write specific route handlers for subdomain urls.
As you can see below, express-subdomain-handler can manage single or multiple subdomains.
http://mysubdomain.example.com
=>'/subdomain/mysubdomain/'
http://myexcellentsubdom.example.com/homepage
=>'/subdomain/myexcellentsubdom/homepage'
http://first.second.example.com
=>'/subdomain/first/second/'
http://first.second.example.com/another/page
=>'/subdomain/first/second/another/page'
npm install express-subdomain-handler
Add express-subdomain-handler to your express middleware stack (before your routes are specified). You need to specify what the base url of your site is ('example.com'
, 'example.local'
, etc), what you what subdomain urls to be prefixed with ('subdomain'
by default) and whether you want logging turned on (false
by default)
app.use( require('express-subdomain-handler')({ baseUrl: 'example.com', prefix: 'myprefix', logger: true }) );
Setup routes to catch subdomain urls so for http://mysubdomain.example.com/homepage
I would write my route
handler to look like this.
app.get('/myprefix/:thesubdomain/thepage', function(req, res, next){
// for the example url this will print 'mysubdomain'
res.send(req.params.thesubdomain);
});
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