Re: [Slashcode-general] subnet requirement on sotry link.

[shane <sh...@lo...>]

On May 10, 2007, at 9:26 AM, Faye Gibbins wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   It is possible to configure slash so that instead of say:
>
> http://features.somemachine.example.com/.....
>
> it uses:
>
> http://somemachine.example.com/features/.....
>
> when linking from a story on the main page
> (http://somemachine.example.com/) to (say) a "features" article?
>
> I'd prefer not to setup an subnet just to play with slash.
>
> I did skim through the Slssh book and got through the variables list
> looking for something obvious.
>
> yours
> Faye

First off, what version of Slashcode are you using?

The version I'm most familiar with, CVS (ie current, unreleased) has  
great reliance upon subdomains in the URL's. I'm going to assume  
that's what you are using. However, what you want can be done. We did  
it on a site. I don't recall if we had to patch anything, or not. But  
the first step for you to go about this would be to remove the URL's  
for any non-primaryskid skins that are nexus's. Then edit your  
article and save it. That'll cause slash to re-render it and the  
links to it.

Because, technically, if your subdomains are setup, there should be  
no behavioral difference between http://features.some.tld/ and http:// 
some.tld/?section=features. And when the dispStory template is  
called, it should render the link to any story as either coming from  
the some.tld/article.pl?section=foo or some.tld/{sectionname}/ 
article.shtml or {subdomainforskin}.some.tdl/article.pl -- all  
depending on the primaryskid or the article, the skin's settings and  
who's requesting it (anon user, user, slashd).

Try it on slashcode, or slashdot yourself if you like. http:// 
apple.slashdot.org/ or http://slashdot.org/?section=apple should be  
the same.

  Shane