[Hack] Subsites - (Solve Friendly Alias Path)

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luke.stokes Reply #51, 20 years, 7 months ago

Djamoer mentioned you’re having problems getting the subsites hack to work. Is there any way I can help? We’ve been using it quite a bit on our site and it does exactly what we need:

www.everynation.org
campus.everynation.org
websites.everynation.org
everynationpv.org
vcm.com
...

These are all in the same modx install.
They key for us was to use the "root" of modx almost as a "httpdocs" folder on a web host. Eeach folder in the root represents a domain and (*important*) it has an alias set that matches that domain. This was something that I didn’t completely understand at first. Basically, to get to campus.everynation.org you are actually going to an alias named "campus.everynation.org" (thus http://campus.everynation.org/campus.everynation.org/) and Djamoer’s wonderful code strips it out to just http://campus.everynation.org/.

Let me know if there is any way I can help.

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wendy Reply #52, 20 years, 7 months ago

Hi luke,
I see that you’re still using the old hack that I built.
Would you mind trying out my latest hack, it’s being attached on the first post. Basically what it does is providing a controlable start id, and error id. In this 1.0 release, I forgot to include option to change unauthorize page id, which usually available on the modx system config. Try checking it out, let me know hwther it’s having problem or not on your site. I did quite a few modification, so it might break banzai’s server. If you have time to test the code out, please inform me back if there is something wrong in it.

Btw, if you can get this to work, it will better suited for your production site, because you can clearly defined the error page id, start page id, and unauthorize page id (added in the next release 1.1).

Thanks for your willingness to help Luke wink

Wendy Novianto
[font=Verdana]PT DJAMOER Technology Media
[font=Verdana]Xituz Media

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luke.stokes Reply #53, 20 years, 7 months ago

Sounds good! I’ll play around with it tomorrow. I actually just used the unauthorized page setting today for the first time as I just setup a secure section of our website.

I put together a full development installation at a different domain so I can test it out there. We’re getting too many hits now on this site to mess with it (yes, that’s right, your "hack" on a live site!).

For us, this was a make or break addition to MODx so I would be glad to spend some time to help you improve this great feature.

(am I laying it on too thick? I’m hoping the core developers will hear my enthusiasm as they read this and feel encouraged to implement this in the next release... one can only hope)

;)

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wendy Reply #54, 20 years, 7 months ago

I can hear your enthusiasm as well wink

We will work together to make sure that this is stable enough to get into the core

Wendy Novianto
[font=Verdana]PT DJAMOER Technology Media
[font=Verdana]Xituz Media

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Ryan Thrash Reply #55, 20 years, 7 months ago

Just for ease of forum search: sub-sites sub sites

Ryan Thrash, MODX Co-Founder
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luke.stokes Reply #56, 20 years, 7 months ago

I didn’t get a chance to mess with this yesterday, but I loaded it up today and I’m just getting this error:

« `` is not numeric and may not be passed to makeUrl() »

Not exactly sure if I’m doing it right. Do I still need to name the alias the same as the domain and have that be a folder in the root?

I’m trying to use pv.wineverynation.org as an example... I put it in the "Site Main Domain" (which is now just a list of domains OTHER than the site main domain, right?) of pv.wineverynation.org 832 832 and document 832 has an alias named pv.wineverynation.org. Is that all correct?

I haven’t yet looked at the modifications of the document parser to see what’s going on, but I just wanted to make sure I’m using this correctly.

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wendy Reply #57, 20 years, 7 months ago

I think I might figure out what causing the problem.
I believe most of you guys here know PHP scripting language much better than me. So here is the problem

<?php
		$domainsTemp = split("\n", trim($this->config['subsites_domain']));
		$this->config['subdomains'] = array();
		if(is_array($domainsTemp)) {
			foreach($domainsTemp as $key=>$rawdomain) {
				$tempConfig = split(" ", $rawdomain);
				if(is_array($tempConfig) && count($tempConfig) == 4 && is_numeric($tempConfig[1]) && is_numeric($tempConfig[2]) && is_numeric($tempConfig[3])) {
					$domain = strtolower($tempConfig[0]);
					$this->config['subdomains'][$domain]['startid'] = $tempConfig[1];
					$this->config['subdomains'][$domain]['errorid'] = $tempConfig[2];
					$this->config['subdomains'][$domain]['unauthorized'] = $tempConfig[3];
					$rootAlias = trim($this->makeUrl((int) $this->config['subdomains'][$domain]['startid'], '', ''), '/');
					$rootAliases = split('/', $rootAlias);
					$rootAlias = '';
					for($i = 0; $i < count($rootAliases); $i++) {
						if($i < count($rootAliases) - 1) $rootAlias .= $rootAliases[$i].'/';
						else {
							$rootAlias .= substr(substr($rootAliases[$i], 0, strlen($rootAliases[$i]) - strlen($this->config['friendly_url_suffix'])), strlen($this->config['friendly_url_prefix']));
						}
					}
					$this->config['subdomains'][$domain]['startalias'] = $rootAlias;
				}
			}
		}
?>

Notice that I need a way to separate line return. On the first line, I’m using "\n" as the separator to split the input from the database. Basically the database has the value of whatever the user input into the setting.
So I’m assuming that the problem is being caused by the difference between each O/S. I believe some of O/S using "\r\n", while others using "\n". If that’s the case, can somebody help me find a better way to split out text based on line return?

Wendy Novianto
[font=Verdana]PT DJAMOER Technology Media
[font=Verdana]Xituz Media

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wendy Reply #58, 20 years, 7 months ago

Try this one out, and report to me if there is any bug
http://svn.djamoer.net/?do=browse&project=MODx&path=/trunk/hacks/subsites/

That’s the latest fix, includes unauthorize page as well.
So you need to add another page id as the error page for unauthorize access.

EDIT: If you guys have problem with it, please do me a favor.
Create a new snippet, name it TestServerVars. Inser this code:

echo '<pre>';
print_r($_SERVER);
echo '</pre>';

Then add the snippet [!TestServerVars!] on any page that you can access. Please paste the output to this thread, for me to further investigate the problem.

Thanks

Wendy Novianto
[font=Verdana]PT DJAMOER Technology Media
[font=Verdana]Xituz Media

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wendy Reply #59, 20 years, 7 months ago

Btw, I did a quick redirection test using sendredirect, and so far I haven’t found any problem yet.
I’ll test this further against this hack.

Wendy Novianto
[font=Verdana]PT DJAMOER Technology Media
[font=Verdana]Xituz Media

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Nicola (Banzai) Reply #60, 20 years, 7 months ago

Wendy, I’ve tried to download your latest document.parser.class.inc.php but winrar can’t open it (corrupted file) :’(

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