Re: How to deal with multiple sites within one

2008-12-31 Thread Glyn Jackson
i think this is more of a IIS issue than CF. yes you can use CGI to redirect the user but why do it at this level. if each domain is on the same server you can just setup one ColdFusion datasource then each domain can access the same database and its content. if you want to keep it secure

Re: How to deal with multiple sites within one

2008-12-31 Thread Will Tomlinson
i also have to warn you having multiple domains with the same content can class as duplicated content in Google. If Google decides the websites are the same it WILL only index one of them or only one domain will come up per search query i.e. sports. this rule will also apply to sub

Re: How to deal with multiple sites within one

2008-12-30 Thread Jessica Kennedy
Dunno if mine is the best solution, but I've got about 10 sites pulling from one db, I put a cfswitch statement from the cgi variable to handle getting people to the correct pages; one if they type in website.com, one for www.website.com. I have not had any problems with this method yet...

Re: How to deal with multiple sites within one

2008-12-30 Thread Will Tomlinson
I'm just wondering what will happen with SSL. Never done it like that before. Thanks, Will ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial

Re: How to deal with multiple sites within one

2008-12-30 Thread Wil Genovese
To the best of my understanding you'll need a SSL cert for each domain/ ip address. If the sites were all sub-domains then there is a way to do it with one SSL cert. Wil Genovese One man with courage makes a majority. -Andrew Jackson A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for

Re: How to deal with multiple sites within one

2008-12-27 Thread Raymond Camden
What I did for RIAForge is simply sniff the CGI variable hostname I believe. Maybe server_name. Either way, when you go to x.riaforge.org, and it isn't www.riaforge.org, we treat it as a project home page. I convert from x to a real project primary key value, and from there it is a trivial

Re: How to deal with multiple sites within one

2008-12-27 Thread Will Tomlinson
What I did for RIAForge is simply sniff the CGI variable hostname I believe. Maybe server_name. Either way, when you go to x.riaforge.org, and it isn't www.riaforge.org, we treat it as a project home page. I convert from x to a real project primary key value, and from there it is a