On Aug 15, 2012, at 9:48 AM, Dave Fisher wrote:
>
> On Aug 15, 2012, at 9:37 AM, drew jensen wrote:
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>> 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.
# change wiki.services.openoffice.org/... to wiki.openoffice.org/...
RewriteCond ${lowercase:%{HTTP_HOST}} ^wiki\.services\.openoffice\.org$
RewriteRule ^wiki\.services\.openoffice\.org/(.*)
http://wiki.openoffice.org/$1 [NE,L,R=permanent]
>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
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