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 Posted 13/01/2008 05:12:40 |
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Junior Member
 
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I am pretty sure this is not a bug but it sure would be nice if it didn't do what it's doing. Here is what is happening.
I have 8 domains that point to the same forum. Why? Well, my site deals with fishing, hunting, and diving so I have a domain for each of those that point to the same forum. What happens is it doesn't matter what domain you entered the site it, you will just jump around domains. I assume that the domains are switching due to what the one who posted used or something???
Does that make sense? You enter the site using www.1.com and before you know it, you are on www.2.com or www.3.com. The problem is that if your not logged into 2 or 3, you have to login. What most of my members have done is just login to every domain and it keeps them logged in.
It sure would be nice to have the site keep the domain you entered the site with. I know I could just do a redirect to one domain but I like having the site using multiple domains because it helps with the search engines.
Any ideas?
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| Posted 14/02/2008 11:54:28 |
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Supreme Being
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| This is not a "usual" setup, it would be possible to alter the forum code drastically in order to acheive the multi-domain shared login you're after, and also to do things like re-skin per domain, however these are not trivial changes. The forum ideally would run under one domain per application instance, perhaps the website at each domain could forward to a specific sub-forum/category only on your site. If you developed site login integration, you could adjust the forum code to grant permissions/show/hide forums dependant on which site the user logged in from. However, given the complexity, and detailed nature of this issue, it's not one we have any plans to develop towards, as the implementation would need to be slightly different on each occasion, as such the only way to achieve this is through user development and customisation. I'm not totally sure why the domains switch, I imagine you're right in that it jumps domains dependant on which site the user was at, i'm assuming you have an unlimited sites license to be operating this setup? However, the solution is to integrate and share authentication between the forums, how you choose to do that, is up to you.
Kindest Regards,
James Trott
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| Posted 16/02/2008 05:52:20 |
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James,
Thanks for your reply and I have a possible idea. How about this? Since the main reason I am using several domains is because I want the search engines to pick the site up under differnt domains that have keywords in them (www.searchterm1.com, www.searchterm2.com and so on). How about having a redirect for logged in users only that redirects them to the domain that are logged in under?
For example, "userA" comes in from "forumA.com" and goes to click on a link posted that wants to go to forumb.com. There is a redirect script that rebulds the URL to foruma.com for that logged in user.
This would allow the spiders to spider all the sites since they are not logged in and it would allow the logged in users to always be on the domain they entered the site on.
I know this would be custom work and I am just getting my feet wet in .net so it may take me a while to figure this one out. In classic ASP I could do it easily.
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| Posted 18/02/2008 11:26:38 |
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Supreme Being
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| That sounds good in theory, but I suspect you'll end up having to redirect to the original domain everytime they accessed a page, which in turn could cause all kinds of extra load on the server or problems in terms of maintaining state. I'm sure there is a solution in there somewhere with customisation, but if you're only just getting your feet wet with .Net this would certainly be a very ambitious feature to try and add. I'll have a think about this some more and if I come up with anything post it back to here.
Kindest Regards,
James Trott
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