Wildcard subdomains with GoDaddy giving me 404 error

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Published on 2009-06-27T16:24:28Z Indexed on 2010/03/22 5:21 UTC
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I have a hosting account with GoDaddy and I enabled wildcard subdomains by adding an A Record pointing to the IP Address. However when I try opening abc.mydomain.com, I get a 404 error. I searched the web and am doubting whether I need a .htaccess file. That file does not exist in my root folder. Can someone please guide me how to configure this and a sample .htaccess file if required.

Many Thanks, Arun

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