Re: [Slashcode-general] Multiple Slash Servers

[Alessio B. <al...@al...>]

"Martin, James S." wrote:

> It seems as though it's almost an
> oversite in the code that the absoulte and relative dirs are hardcoded into
> the database.

Well, two things: first, if the two servers are behind a load balancer
hardware, it seems to me that this configuration should be kept hidden
to the end user. As an example, if you have slash1.yourdomain.com and
slash2.yourdomain.com as Slash balanced-servers, I, as a user, expect to
access them as slash.yourdomain.com and leave the dirty work to the
hardware/software. I don't want to see slash1 or slash2 in my URL since
it annoys me, doesn't work well with caches, etc. 

So having slash.yourdomain.com in the db config seems ok to me, since it
will be encoded in URLs sent back to the user, that therefore will show
up again in front of the load balancer. If not, user will continue to
work always on the same server, so you are just "balancing" the number
of users that first access to the homepage, because from that point on
URLs will have the name of a single server inside. What if a URL gets
linked in some other site? What URL you print in your RSS feed file?

On the other hand, relativedir can be relative, so I believe can just be
'/' without the hostname. absolutedir is included in mail messages and
RSS files, so it really is the main URL of your site. Unfortunately,
1.0.X was buggy in this respect and I don't know if all of them have
been cleaned for 2.X.

> I tried to modify the Utility.pm--

You really have to know where you put your hands...

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