Ive tried multiple ideas to get this to work, but keep hitting a dead end. Has anyone done this before? I want joe.domain.com to display www.domain.com/profile/joe Im using lighttpd. Routes dont have access to the URL string and therefore I cant code in a conditional. lighttpd rewrite seems to really screw it all up. Is there a feasible solution? Thank you, Joe Noon
Maybe I missed something previously in this thread, but can''t you just
do:
# handish virtual hosting
# map all domains of a top-level-domain to a single document-root
$HTTP["host"] =~ "(^|\.)example\.org$" {
server.document-root = "/var/www/htdocs/example.org/pages/"
}
Taken from here:
http://www.lighttpd.net/documentation/configuration.html
b
PS: anyone know what "handish" means?
Joe Noon wrote:> Ive tried multiple ideas to get this to work, but keep hitting a dead
> end. Has anyone done this before?
>
> I want joe.domain.com to display www.domain.com/profile/joe
>
> Im using lighttpd.
>
> Routes dont have access to the URL string and therefore I cant code in
> a conditional. lighttpd rewrite seems to really screw it all up. Is
> there a feasible solution?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Joe Noon
> _______________________________________________
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> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
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> $HTTP["host"] =~ "(^|\.)example\.org$" { > server.document-root = "/var/www/htdocs/example.org/pages/" > }I don''t want to do anything with document root, since document root will always be the same for the whole project no matter whats params I''m passing in. To further explain, I need to get joe.test.com to translate to www.test.com/profile/show/joe (:controller "profile" :action "show" :id "joe") I don''t want to redirect. Ive thought of using the render_component, but that starts to become ugly. Any other solutions out there? Joe Noon
Joe, something like this maybe ? http://textsnippets.com/posts/show/5 evhost isn''t very well documented, but this shows the available variables at least. On 1/25/06, Joe Noon <joenoon@gmail.com> wrote:> > > $HTTP["host"] =~ "(^|\.)example\.org$" { > > server.document-root = "/var/www/htdocs/example.org/pages/" > > } > > I don''t want to do anything with document root, since document root > will always be the same for the whole project no matter whats params > I''m passing in. > > To further explain, I need to get joe.test.com to translate to > www.test.com/profile/show/joe (:controller "profile" :action "show" > :id "joe") > > I don''t want to redirect. Ive thought of using the render_component, > but that starts to become ugly. Any other solutions out there? > > Joe Noon > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060125/c527a789/attachment-0001.html
Yeah, I see your point... configuring in lighty would map different subdomains to different apps. But you want it all to go to the same app, remapped to an action based on the subdomain. I think your only option is to map everything at test.com to your app (in lighty) and then write something on the rails side to reinterpret the url as needed. The stock comment in application.rb says "Filters added to this controller will be run for all controllers in the application". So, sounds like you need to write a filter that checks the host for <username>.test.com and fowards internally based on what it finds. That or maybe it''s possible to get access to the host name in routes.rb... ??? I''m too green to throw out the code... any takers out there? b Joe Noon wrote:>>$HTTP["host"] =~ "(^|\.)example\.org$" { >> server.document-root = "/var/www/htdocs/example.org/pages/" >>} > > > I don''t want to do anything with document root, since document root > will always be the same for the whole project no matter whats params > I''m passing in. > > To further explain, I need to get joe.test.com to translate to > www.test.com/profile/show/joe (:controller "profile" :action "show" > :id "joe") > > I don''t want to redirect. Ive thought of using the render_component, > but that starts to become ugly. Any other solutions out there? > > Joe Noon > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
Here is one way to solve you problem. Its slightly different from
what you wanted as far as mapping to the url you want but its another
way to use the subdomain as account key:
In application.rb
---------------------------
# The filters added to this controller will be run for all
controllers in the application.
# Likewise will all the methods added be available for all controllers.
require ''user_system''
require ''account_location''
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
include UserSystem
include AccountLocation
before_filter :setup_environment, :except =>
[:new, :create, :signup]
protected
def setup_environment
if @account = Account.find_by_company_abbrev
(request.subdomains.first)
@session[''account_id''] ||= @account.id
else
redirect_to :controller => ''user'', :action
=> ''login''
end
end
end
----------------------------
in lib/account_location
---------------------------
module AccountLocation
def self.included(controller)
controller.helper_method
(:account_domain, :account_host, :account_url)
end
protected
def default_account_subdomain
@account.company_abbrev if @account && @account.respond_to?
(:company_abbrev) || "default"
end
def account_url(account_subdomain = default_account_subdomain,
use_ssl = request.ssl?)
(use_ssl ? "https://" : "http://") + account_host
(account_subdomain)
end
def account_host(account_subdomain = default_account_subdomain)
account_host = ""
account_host << account_subdomain + "."
account_host << account_domain
end
def account_domain
account_domain = ""
account_domain << request.subdomains[1..-1].join(".") +
"." if
request.subdomains.size > 1
account_domain << request.domain + request.port_string
end
end
With this method I have an Account model that stores the username as
the subdomain key. this before filter gets run on each request and
takes the subdomain from the url and grabs the user that matches it.
Then it sets session[:account_id] to @account.id unless it is already
set. The rest of the methods in the AccountLocation module are just
for creating the correct links that always include the subdomain.
So with this method, instead of redirecting joe.example.com to
example.com/user/joe, the url just always stays joe.example.com
whenever they are logged in. Much simpler then what you want to do I
think ;-)
Cheers-
-Ezra Zygmuntowicz
Yakima Herald-Republic
WebMaster
http://yakimaherald.com
509-577-7732
ezra@yakima-herald.com
How about using something like the following in a before_filter in
application.rb?
# Grab the subdomain and render appropriately
@subdomain = request.subdomains.first
params[:id] = @subdomain
ProfileController::show
render :controller => ''profile'', :action =>
''show''
Does that make any sense?
-Bill
On 1/25/06, Ben Munat <bent@munat.com> wrote:>
> Yeah, I see your point... configuring in lighty would map different
> subdomains to
> different apps. But you want it all to go to the same app, remapped to an
> action based on
> the subdomain.
>
> I think your only option is to map everything at test.com to your app (in
> lighty) and then
> write something on the rails side to reinterpret the url as needed.
>
> The stock comment in application.rb says "Filters added to this
controller
> will be run for
> all controllers in the application". So, sounds like you need to write
a
> filter that
> checks the host for <username>.test.com and fowards internally based
on
> what it finds.
>
> That or maybe it''s possible to get access to the host name in
routes.rb...
> ???
>
> I''m too green to throw out the code... any takers out there?
>
> b
>
> Joe Noon wrote:
> >>$HTTP["host"] =~ "(^|\.)example\.org$" {
> >> server.document-root =
"/var/www/htdocs/example.org/pages/"
> >>}
> >
> >
> > I don''t want to do anything with document root, since
document root
> > will always be the same for the whole project no matter whats params
> > I''m passing in.
> >
> > To further explain, I need to get joe.test.com to translate to
> > www.test.com/profile/show/joe (:controller "profile" :action
"show"
> > :id "joe")
> >
> > I don''t want to redirect. Ive thought of using the
render_component,
> > but that starts to become ugly. Any other solutions out there?
> >
> > Joe Noon
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
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