How to move every node to its own subdomain with Drupal?

Question

I have a content site that was affected by Google Panda, and recently it was suggested that it is advised by Google that moving content to subdomains might work.

Does anyone have a working solution to move aliased nodes to their subdomains so mysite.com/subfolder/my-great-content moved to my-great-content.mysite.com ?

I found this but seems to be abandoned: http://drupal.org/project/subdomain

Also this which is very advanced: http://www.easymodrewrite.com/example-subdomains

Or is multisite the way to go? I notice drupalgardens.com has subdomains for user pages.

Also found another method that uses the PURL module for Open Atrium, described here: https://community.openatrium.com/documentation-en/node/708 I guess this could be combined somehow with a wildcard subdomain setup? I notice it even has a subordomain module http://drupal.org/project/subordomain

Here is a general solution https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1943356/creating-subdomains-programmatically

Answer 1

http://drupal.org/project/domain is probably the way to go. You can do subdomains/multisites and specify exactly what tables be to shared from the database. This video is good documentation on what the module can do and how to integrate it.

Answer 2

A couple years later... I have a similar requirement.

The Subdomain Field module works well for me. https://drupal.org/project/subdomain_field

Has clear installation instructions: edit your settings.php, update your virtual host, add a wildcard DNS record. Then simply install the module and add a "Subdomain Field" field type to any content types that you want.

Now when I edit /node/2 and change the subdomain, I have subdomain.example.com displaying the contents of node 2. Perfect!

Note that it requires the Entity API module, but that is currently not listed as a "requirement"