Wildcard DNS for Your Production FAST Server

During development you’ll be issued a Numerex FAST branded URL for your server. This will look something like http://customername.numerexfast.com. When moving to a production server you’ll be able to use your own URL such as mygpstracking.com. Each customer account in your system will then be partitioned by subdomain, for example http://customer1.mygpstracking.com or http://customer2.mygpstracking.com. To support this approach you’ll need to setup a wildcard DNS entry with your domain registrar. A wildcard DNS entry tells all requests at *.mygpstracking.com to resolve to the specified IP address. This will enable each customer to have a personalized URL. Creating wildcard DNS entries are relatively easy and in the case of GoDaddy and many other registrars you can create them yourself through a control panel. You simply need to create an A record with the following settings:

Hostname: *
IP: enter the IP address of your FAST server

Alternatively, should you decide not to use the subdomain account strategy then be sure to read the single application subdomain article.