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[Slashcode-development] newbie question -sharing content between subdomains

[Imtiaz A k. <kha...@gm...>]

Hi,
I was finally able to setup slashcode and get it working as well as get 
subdomains going. I used multiple virtual users and multiple databases 
for the subdomains. Now my question is :

   1. *Is it possible to have one central database for all of the
      subdomains?*  This way, when a user logs into the homepage or any
      of the subdomains, he will be logged into the entire site (this is
      what we want).  It also may be easier to set up the subdomains to
      pull from this central database according to different parameters
      (for example: only display rock stories).
   2. I see on slashdot.org that they have multiple stories listed on
      the front page and these come from different subdomains. Is that a
      plugin at work and if yes what should I be looking at?

I would very much like to have a single sign-on for all subdomains and 
content sharing between all, however if that is not something slashcode 
provides as a functionality is it atleast possible to get content from 
subdomains listed on the main page as is done on slashdot.org.

Thanks in advance for your help

Warm Regards
Imtiaz
kha...@gm...


 

Re: [Slashcode-development] newbie question -sharing content between subdomains

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

What version of slash are you using?

After you installed the source- and you installed your slash site,  
what'd you do exactly?

For your subdomains, did you install a new slashsite, or did you  
create a new section (or skin, depending on the version of slash you  
are using)?

Typically, one installs the src code (make install), then runs  
install-slashsite to create a website that's slashcode-based.

Then, when the site grows, they create a skin (or section if you're  
using an older version of slash), define a url (ie http:// 
{subdomain}.mytld.org } for that skin, add the URL to their httpd  
config and restart httpd. What is abnormal about what you are saying  
is that you're talking about having multiple virtual users and db's.

If you ran install-slashsite for your main TLD, and then ran install- 
slashsite for each subdomain, then what you did was created unique  
websites (and a unique slashcode website) for each URL. And if that  
is indeed what you did, there is no published automated way to  
combine these, atleast that I'm aware of. I've never heard of anyone  
doing it this way before. If this is what you did, I would delete the  
website instances for the subdomains, add the subdomains to the base- 
website's skins,

The way that slashdot associates one story with multiple skins on  
their website is stock code. See

http://slash.lottadot.com/article.pl?sid=04/06/18/001233

http://slash.lottadot.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/03/1250230

for more of an explanation.

  Shane



On Sep 12, 2006, at 1:56 PM, Imtiaz A khan wrote:

> Hi,
> I was finally able to setup slashcode and get it working as well as  
> get subdomains going. I used multiple virtual users and multiple  
> databases for the subdomains. Now my question is :
>
> Is it possible to have one central database for all of the  
> subdomains?  This way, when a user logs into the homepage or any of  
> the subdomains, he will be logged into the entire site (this is  
> what we want).  It also may be easier to set up the subdomains to  
> pull from this central database according to different parameters  
> (for example: only display rock stories).
> I see on slashdot.org that they have multiple stories listed on the  
> front page and these come from different subdomains. Is that a  
> plugin at work and if yes what should I be looking at?
> I would very much like to have a single sign-on for all subdomains  
> and content sharing between all, however if that is not something  
> slashcode provides as a functionality is it atleast possible to get  
> content from subdomains listed on the main page as is done on  
> slashdot.org.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help
>
> Warm Regards
> Imtiaz
> kha...@gm...
>
>
>
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Re: [Slashcode-development] newbie question -sharing content between subdomains

[Imtiaz K. <kha...@gm...>]

Hi Shane,
As I said earlier, I'm pretty new to slashcode (about a week now though),
and am not very sure how to go about the virtual hosting for subdomains.
Hacking around I was able to figure out that if I had multiple virtual users
I could add more slashsites to the same host and run them all at the same
time. So here's what I did:

   1. prepared the server for slash by removing all preinstalled stuff
   that would've conflicted (Perl, Apache, MySQL)
   2. Reinstalled from source using documentation at slashcode.org
   3. downloaded the latest css enabled slash from CVS (version 2.2.6 I
   believe but I could be wrong as I got it from CVS and it doesn't really say
   which version it i even in the CHANGES file)
   4. setup a virtual user lets call it virtslash
   5. did a install-slashsite for my primary site using one virtual user
   6. got the site up and running
   7. next I added a new virtual user to DBIx::Password and created a
   MySQL database for this user
   8. setup the second subdomain using the virtual user added in step 6
   by running a install-slashsite and providing new user when asked for it
   9. did the include jazz and tested both sites as running indepedently

Now my requirement is that these should be able to share data. But it seems,
and actually rightfully so, that that is not possible or at the very least
not adviseable. I tried getting the lottadot plugin but seems the cvs server
is not working. Will try again or maybe install the slashcode once again
with all modules selected, I think lottadot was an option there.

Could you, or anyone else on the list, kindly detail the steps involved in
setting up sections and then using them for the subdomains. So for example
if I setup a section named rock (we're doing a music site) and I want to
make that section the doc root for say rock.domain.com then how should I
actually go about it. Even if it's a readme which I have not been able to
find the help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in Advance
Warm Regards
Imtiaz


On 9/12/06, Imtiaz A khan <kha...@gm...> wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi,
>  I was finally able to setup slashcode and get it working as well as get
> subdomains going. I used multiple virtual users and multiple databases for
> the subdomains. Now my question is :
>
>
> Is it possible to have one central database for all of the
subdomains?  This
> way, when a user logs into the homepage or any of the subdomains, he will
be
> logged into the entire site (this is what we want).  It also may be easier
> to set up the subdomains to pull from this central database according to
> different parameters (for example: only display rock stories).
> I see on slashdot.org that they have multiple stories listed on the front
> page and these come from different subdomains. Is that a plugin at work
and
> if yes what should I be looking at?
>  I would very much like to have a single sign-on for all subdomains and
> content sharing between all, however if that is not something slashcode
> provides as a functionality is it atleast possible to get content from
> subdomains listed on the main page as is done on slashdot.org.
>
>  Thanks in advance for your help
>
>  Warm Regards
>  Imtiaz
>  kha...@gm...
>
>
>
>
>


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