2012/8/15 drew jensen <[email protected]>: > 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. > > 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? > > Thanks, > > //drew > >
I'm not an expert, but the problem is that the [url=...]...[/url] tags only accept absolute paths. It is possible to define relative tags(1), I just did it for the ES forums and they work perfectly, but that will not help with the existing situation, only a proper redirect will help. (1) http://ittidbit.blogspot.it/2011/09/phpbb-relative-url-howto-bbcode.html Regards Ricardo
