Dan, what Roland says is workable - I know because I have
multiple domains attached the same web site, but depending on what the
URL request is they get to see different information.
While I'm not as cluey as most of the people on this list, I
don't see the problem with what you're looking to do, if understand it
correctly
I use a taf as the default page which simply gets the
HTTP_REFERER (misspelling intentional as per http functions)
info and assign a global variable based on the user's session ID (in
this case a userref provided by Witango server) which then
points (refresh) them to the appropriate content based on the global
variable.
The domain they requested is what they will always see in their
browser so if they bookmark it it is fine.
If you set up a if statement to check the existence of the global
variable, they can't progress to any of the other pages until the
variable is set (or you can have a default domain which shows if there
is no variable - it's up to you), thus ensuring that they cannot pull
up any information incorrectly.
If you want to handle direct access to subfolders I would have
thought that you could either re-work it so that the user must go
through the taf and then click on links, or (the way I'd do it so it
was transparent) using
HTTP_SEARCH_ARGS parse the url and on refresh send them through
to this link.
While there is a possibility of the browser getting in the way,
you could always put in an exception rule which would provide them
with a nifty (let's be creative here) way of confirming which web site
they were going to BUT I haven't had any probs with my system (yet)
and I HTTP_REFERER and HTTP_SEARCH_ARGS are two universally used http
functions on web servers which work fine.
Maybe I just didn't understand the question...
cheers
Garth
is this so that people hitting the site FROM each of the companies will see it as their own?
(if so, in your index.taf, you can assign a global variable based on IP or client domain and use that to change the presentation)
On Nov 3, 2003, at 9:42 AM, Dan Stein wrote:
I prefer to have the domains point as you do but in the case the deal is the
client owns a much wanted domain that multiple companies want as their own.
Rather than sell it to one he wants to serve all of them in the way
described.
on 11/3/03 11:47, Robert Shubert at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I prefer to have 6 specific domains that all point to the same physical
website, then you can logically separate the content by domain, this
works well.
Otherwise, I would simply take
www.site.com/xyz/default_file.taf
And have it @ASSIGN user$site = xyz
Then META-REFESH www.site.com
Then have all your TAFs in www.site.com/ be able to look at the
user$site to determine what you present.
You will likely have a problem with bookmaking, and will need to deal
gracefully with a user at www.site.com without a USERREFERENCE and/or
user$site set.
Robert
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From: Dan Stein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 11:29 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Witango-Talk: Looking for thoughts
I am drawing up specs for where there will be multiple hosting multiple
domains from a single backend.
In each case we will have multiple companies in each domain but will;
want
to load specific sites to those companies when users come into the
domain.
So for instance there may be 6 companies who will all have the domain
appearing in the address part of the browser being
www.thissite.com
But because as user came in through www.thissite.com/xx they will get a
specific companies site.
I want the links to always be hidden so even the www.thissite.com/xxx
does
not appear in an address bar.
The site will in 90% of the cases be flash based and will not have
eCommerce
functionality.
I'm looking for ideas on how to best design this and what the pitfalls
and
pros and cons might be,
Dan
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