wildcard dns

Question

Hi,   
I just started with lightsail and I am trying to set up a multisite wordpress instance to work something like wordpress.com where my students can setup their own wordpress subsite (like student.mydomain.com)  
Herefore I think I need a wildcard dns for *.mydomain.com.   
I do not want to create every subdomain manually, I just want to point my students to the wp-signup.php file and let them set it up.  
  
Can anybody help me to set up the wildcard dns so I can do this? I am a total newbie on this  
Kind regards,  
Natascha

Answer

Are you using Lightsail DNS?  If so, it's pretty easy, just create a DNS entry with the subdomain '*' and point it to your Lightsail instance or IP.  
  
What have you tried?  What errors have you encountered?

Answer

Hi,   
  
Lightsail support creating wildcard DNS record as specified here: https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/docs/en_us/articles/understanding-dns-in-amazon-lightsail. You can create DNS records like A/NS/etc on Lightsail web console, and pointing to the ip address or load balancer of your wordpress instance. Hope it helps!

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