Handling multi-tenant sub and custom domains

@mike What services like Heroku do is allow you to create a CNAME that maps to the sub-domain version of your application’s URL.

I think in this scenario, you’ll need to do some routing logic to map a custom domain name a customer’s added to their actual subdomain, and then group your routes using the sub-domain:

// Marketing site routes
Route::group(['domain' => 'example.com'], function () {
    // Marketing home page
    Route::get('/', 'HomeController');
});

// Customer routes
Route::group([
    'domain' => '{account}.example.com',
    'middleware' => ['any', 'middleware', 'here'],
    'namespace' => 'Account',
], function () {
    // Customer home page route
    // All routes in this group will receive $account as first parameter
    // Use route–model binding to have $account be an Account instance
    Route::get('/', 'HomeController');
});

Whatever approach you take, make sure to cache you’re domain-to-sub-domain look-ups. You don’t want to be performing the same database query on each and every HTTP request. Cache the mappings, and then re-cache them when a domain is added/removed.

Hi @martinbean

Thanks for the quick reply. I have implemented a very similar approach so it seems like I was heading down the right path.

I thought I might have been making things more complicated than they had to be, but it seems like a logical way approach it.

Good tip with the caching too! Don't want to be querying that information on every request!.

Thanks again

@Mike No problem. Best of luck with the project!