Re: [Tiki-devel] Multi-domain on shared hosting

[Torsten F. <to...@fa...>]

Hi,

Am 27.08.2013 15:33, schrieb Marc Laporte:
> ...
> Areas / workspaces / perspectives: domain name doesn't change when I
> switch perspectives
> http://dev.tiki.org/item4696
>

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General:

=> Please mind, that changing a perspective in one browser session (all 
tabs and windows) will switch all perspectives in all other tabs and 
windows at the next pageload!

=> This can only be avoided by using a subdomain for the perspective!

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I) Setting Multidomain

tiki-admin.php?page=general

second tab 'General Settings'

Multi-domain Configuration:

One domain per line. Comma separated with perspective ID. Ex.:

tiki.org,1
suite.tiki.org,2
example.domain.com,7

...

=> Domain has it's own perspective, meaning, (if all caches cleared) by 
default you land in the above specified domain-specific perspective, 
when using a link to the subdomain.

=> Changing the perspective does NOT switch the domain

=> all content is NOT limited to a domain <=> all content is visble in 
all perspectives, respectively with all subdomains

=> Mind, that "category jail" is only for limiting search results

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II) Limiting Content to perspectives (Areas)

create a category tree with one specific category for each perspective 
which should be limited

activate "categories" in templates

setup a custom module applying to the "#pagetop" module area with the 
following code:

{if isset($objectCategoryIds) and in_array(1, $objectCategoryIds)}
{wiki}{literal}{REDIRECT(perspective=1) /}{/literal}{/wiki}
{elseif isset($objectCategoryIds) and in_array(80, $objectCategoryIds)}
{wiki}{literal}{REDIRECT(perspective=2) /}{/literal}{/wiki}
{elseif isset($objectCategoryIds) and in_array(119, $objectCategoryIds)}
{wiki}{literal}{REDIRECT(perspective=7) /}{/literal}{/wiki}
{/if}

Categorise all content objects, which should be limited to a perspective 
and thus NOT be visible in ANY OTHER perspective.

Ids need not to follow one by one, but SHOULD have the same top-category 
(one category tree for this purpose).

For quick demonstration apply a different theme-option and different 
site-title for each perspective.

...

Here in the example the category Ids 1,80,119 are used with the 
perspective Ids 1,2,7.

=> That means there are more different categories and perspectives used 
for different purposes.

The content which is NOT categorised with 1, 80 or 119 is still visible 
in all perspectives, including 1, 2 and 7

=> Switching from content of one limited category toi another limited 
category switches the perspective

=> Switching the perspective does NOT switch the domain.

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III) one way of auto-Switching Domains

For each domain use a home page and a landing page.

Home page is functional (kind of a system page) and auto redirects to 
the landingpage by using the Reirect plugin and an absolute link:

{REDIRECT(url=http://sub.domain.com) /}

...

=> This means change to the set home page of that perspective, but 
always in the appropriate domain/subdomain.

=> Still possible: links to specific content written to the wrong domain 
still guide users to the right content in the right perspective (menus, 
theme, etc.) but in the wrong domain.

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IV) Alternatives

to II:
An Areas feature has been developed, based on the category jail, but it 
has been turning out as a dead end. Then replaced by the custom module 
method.

to III:
Alternative to the Redirect might be a RewriteRule, provided it would be 
possible to do such rules based on categories (maybe smarty?)

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I hope that helps,

Cheers
Torsten