On Aug 15, 2012, at 9:37 AM, drew jensen wrote: > On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 17:08 -0700, Dave Fisher wrote: >> On Aug 14, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: >> >>> On 14/08/2012 RGB ES wrote: >>>> 2012/8/14 RGB ES: >>>>> Good! But I'm finding a weird behaviour on the forums... If I enter on >>>>> the old url >>>>> http://user.services.openoffice.org/ >>>>> I'm NOT redirected. If I open bot, the new and the old address and >>>>> log-in in the new, in the old one I'm still logged off >>> >>> I would consider this to be normal behavior. Authentication is probably >>> managed through a cookie that is sent back to the originating site (the >>> originating subdomain) only. So user.services.openoffice.org has no way to >>> know that you are logged in at forum.openoffice.org, unless we completely >>> rewrite all URLs in the form user.services.openoffice.org/SOMETHING to >>> forum.openoffice.org/SOMETHING . >>> >>>> Not only confusing, but also problematic: if you log-in on the new >>>> address and then click on an old link that cross reference to another >>>> post you'll arrive to a page on which you are not logged in any >>>> more! >>> >>> If we have hardcoded links that are not rewritten (i.e., if pages on >>> forum.openoffice.org contain "internal" links that reference >>> user.services.openoffice.org explicitly), then it would be better to use an >>> "external" redirect as explained above. >> >> Currently both user.services.openoffice.org and forum.openoffice.org are >> directed to the same IP by DNS. >> >> Also wiki.services.openoffice.org and wiki.openoffice.org are directed to >> the same IP by DNS. >> >> What is different is that for the wiki the Apache Traffic Server is in front >> and it does do the necessary redirection to wiki.openoffice.org. >> >> Should we do something similar for the user forums? >> >> Regards, >> Dave >> >>> >>> Regards, >>> Andrea. >> > > Hi, > > Just checked and the phpBB installation, for En at least but I'd assume > same for all, list the base URL of the site as > user.services.openoffice.org, all generated links then use this. > > Isn't it proper now to use the forum.openoffice.org address? > > Don't suppose doing so would help alleviate the currently discussed > problem though.
It would be proper in combination with a virtual host entry in the ooo-fourms' apache2.conf file for wiki.services.openoffice.org and then to redirect all of that traffic to wiki.openoffice.org permanently. > > However - it is also possible to configure phpBB such that the software > determines, at runtime versus a hard coded setting, what the proper base > domain name is - now that might be worth a test.. > @imacat - what do you think? Yes, what do you think? Regards, Dave > > Thanks, > > //drew > >
