Creating virtual server with subdomain as Document Root

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Hello,
I’m attempting to use virtualmin to setup an educational “webhost” wherein each student would a receive a separate virtual server account with a subdomain as its document root. I’m looking to do something similar to how wordpress ‘dot’ com works on its free tier accounts, ie. each new account is a subdomain of the wordpress ‘dot’ com domain (example: account1.wordpress.com, account2.wordpress).
So in this case I would create virtual servers for each student as something like:

firstname-last-name.myregistereddomain.com

I’d like the account to be web accessible, so that the students can practice using ftp and getting some general experience with working in a control panel. In this case they would also show off their work to others.

The access to these accounts would be limited to students enrolled in the course, so there wouldn’t be any issue with spammers or others seeking free accounts to cause harm.

I’m sure there’s a way to do this through changing my host file, but I’m trying to find a solution that is a bit more automated, as manually updating the hosts, for multiple students, on a consistent basis, would be quite the tasks.

Thanks for the help.

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That’s easy done just create a new top level server with the subdomain name, this will give each studant their own account and access only to their own project

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BRILLIANT! Thanks for the reply! I guess I was WAY overthinking how this would work. It worked like a charm.

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