Hi Sean,
You proposal sounds great and makes perfect sense . Looking
forward to see this feature in 4.1 M2.
--Srini
On 2/5/08, Sean Gilligan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi Dave, et. al.
>
> Do you know of any issues with using your patch when Roller is deployed
> as the "root" webapp? (so http://photophys.com would not redirect to
> http://photophys.com/photophys ?)
>
> Allen Gilliland wrote:
> > All url building should be done using the URLStrategy, so if there are
> > a couple places which aren't doing that then they should be fixed.
>
> Sounds right to me.
>
> >
> > As Srinivasa said, putting the per weblog absolute url in the static
> > config doesn't make sense, it should be in the db and configurable at
> > runtime. In fact, it probably makes most sense for that to be a
> > property of a Weblog and hence in the weblog table.
>
> Agreed.
> >
> > It sounds like there are 2 problems which may not share the same
> > solution.
> >
> > Solving for the subdomain situation should be just a matter of
> > choosing a different URLStrategy and RequestMapper which are designed
> > to expect urls of the form blog_handle.domain.com/rest/of/url. Your
> > proposal is more designed for solving the true multi-domain problem.
>
> I think the two solutions should be developed together, and the
> configuration should options should work as follows:
>
> A) Roller deployment is configured by the server administrator with the
> following settings:
> 1) Configurable URL strategy:
> a) Current strategy
> b) Subdomain strategy
> 2) A boolean setting that enables/disables blog admins from
> setting custom domains
>
> B) A Blog administrator can enable a custom domain on a per-blog basis
> (if enabled by the server admin)
> * Requires an additional setting on the Weblog Settings UI
> screen (hidden when disabled)
> * Custom domains on Weblogs might require the subdomain URL
> strategy (?)
> * Can Open
>
> I'd be willing to make these changes for "4.1M2" if people think this
> approach makes sense.
>
> -- Sean
>
> p.s. Welcome back Allen!
>
>
>
--
-Srini Marreddy
