I hope it's ok to post this here. I first posted this question in the support forums -- but it was suggested that I post here instead since it's a path question.
I'm totally new to Drupal but experienced in SEO and PHP. I've always rolled my own crappy CMS because of custom needs. I'm REALLY hoping Drupal will help me to stop this wasteful methodology.
The main thing I need to figure out is how to take full control of Drupal URLS. My future sites need simple URLs in the style of about.com wherein each subject or content type is assigned a unique subdomain (one site, many dynamic subdomains like http://dogs.about.com, http://cats.about.com).
All incoming subdomain links are directed to the base folder where an HTACCESS file does an internal URL re-write (no redirects) for Drupal. This part is easy for me so this is NOT a question about DNS or HTACCESS.
What I need to know is how to get Drupal/Path-auto etc. to generate (alias?) links using my pattern? Here's the URL pattern (with no subdomain for the default type "pages"):
http://[content-type].domain.com/[pathauto-node-title].htmlit would look something like this:
pages: http://domain.com/[node-title].html
forums: http://forum.domain.com/[node-title].html
blogs: http://blog.domain.com/[node-title].html
articles http://article.domain.com/[node-title].html
news items: http://news.domain.com/[node-title]-[date].html
newsletters: http://newsletter.domain.com/[node-title]-[date].html
secure: https://secure.domain.com/[node-title].html I'm looking in Pathauto but it doesn't seem to allow defining the entire URL. I hope I'm just missing something obvious. Does the "alias" hold an entire URL or just the path part?
I've searched around in the forums and the other subdomain questions seem to deal with DNS, HTACCESS, redirecting etc. and not how to get Drupal to create links using the pattern. Perhaps this part is already too obvious?
Thanks,
Chad
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paths
Pathauto is really just a means to create paths. So, if this can be done with drupal core path.module then pathauto can do it.
Onfortunately, I think the only way to get that is using the htaccess tricks you mention above (which I frankly don't actually know that well).
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path.module?
The .HTACCESS part is really easy, you just use a Regex expression to grab the subodmain and reformat it into whatever format Drupal prefers.
The part I'm not clear about is how to get Drupal to generate the subdomain links. How can path.module be used to output urls in the form of http://[content-type].domain.com/[title] ?
I can look through the code myself if someone can point me at a good starting place. Where does Drupal construct URLs for links?
A good starting point...
... might be the new localizer.module! It supports
While this is not exactly what you are looking for, I suspect that the way they do that subdomain switch is of great help for your problem... You can directly browse the module code at the CVS repository.
Hope this is of any help for you...
Pancho
Multidomain module
Take a look at the Multidomain module. Isn't that exactly what you need?
Pancho
path.module
it's generated in path.module
Take a look at function path_set_alias($path = NULL, $alias = NULL, $pid = NULL) { on line 135.
Greg
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some documentation
Partially as a result of your post, chad, I spent some time today writing and fixing up the pathauto documentation in the handbooks.
In particular I
Wrote this page of recipes that talks about patterns with static entries per content type: http://drupal.org/node/124462
And updated the page about "dangerous paths" http://drupal.org/node/73232
There's still lots of room for improvement, particularly on the "tips" page at http://drupal.org/node/86994
I encourage everyone who can (which is everyone...really...) to read the docs and help provide more pointers on how you like to setup pathauto. If you can't edit the book just comment on the page.
Thanks!
Greg
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Did someone ever figure out
Did someone ever figure out how to do the subdirectly via content type?
I will be creating a drupal site with a forum, blog, windows programs and mac programs. I would like to put the forum, blog and mac programs each on their own subdomains each with unique homepages, but I would like to run this all off 1 Drupal installation.
Any ideas on how I can achieve this?
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That is the same point ...
Hi, subscribing. I stopped at the same stage of development. Being very intersted in the further approach of this. Cheers
.davidnaian
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Hello, we had a similar issue
Hello,
we had a similar issue so we used organic groups + subdomain
we have a group like news --> news.yourdomain.com
then we have group posts that are posted into news and they inherit the subdomain news.yourdomain.com/title-of-your-post
the settings are done in pathauto -> if you need info on the pathauto settings let me know...
Best!
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Please do it!
@segments
Yes please post the settings.
But much more I need the settings of the subdomain Module, or better, of the Apache and .htaccess
I use XAMPP for develop, but I have no idea how to get the domains and subdomains working there.
I has install the subdomain Module and I got a lot of errors... DNS, Wildcard, Drupal's inbound URL rewriting and last but not least, $cookie_domain in settings.php
I do not have any Idea what to do.
And please, if you have some tip for the Shared Hoster to...
Thanks for your help!
Please do it!
@segments
Yes please post the settings.
But much more I need the settings of the subdomain Module, or better, of the Apache and .htaccess
I use XAMPP for develop, but I have no idea how to get the domains and subdomains working there.
I has install the subdomain Module and I got a lot of errors... DNS, Wildcard, Drupal's inbound URL rewriting and last but not least, $cookie_domain in settings.php
I do not have any Idea what to do.
And please, if you have some tip for the Shared Hoster to...
Thanks for your help!
I am also having the issue, please help me.
@segments
@pepe-perez
I am also having the same issues.
I have Groups using OG, i need to have subdomains for each group created.
I have tried using OG + pathauto + subdomains in my localhost. I got the following errors.
DNS server - show/hide details Not working yet
test-1.localhost failed to resolve
test-2.localhost failed to resolve
test-3.localhost failed to resolve
It appears your DNS server is not setup to handle wildcard subdomains (*.localhost) for localhost. Edit the DNS zone file or settings for your server to fix.
PHP caches DNS lookups, so you'll want to restart your web server after making changes to your DNS server to see the results of your changes on this page.
Web server unable to test
Unable to test Apache settings until DNS wildcard subdomains are working
Drupal's inbound URL rewriting - show/hide details Not working yet
HTTP request to http://subdomain-test.localhost/groups/subdomain/test resulted in an internal Drupal path of . It should have been ~subdomain-test/subdomain/test
The custom_url_rewrite_inbound() function in settings.php is rewriting the internal path incorrectly. Did you patch settings.php? See readme.txt for instructions.
Drupal's outbound URL rewriting - show/hide details Working
$cookie_domain in settings.php - show/hide details Set
Please help me to fix this issues.
Thanks
suggest me please.......!
Hi,
I have create a mobile site using adaptive theme . I use XAMPP for develop now i want use this mobile site for my website can you please suggest me what i do now. Can i use sub domain module for that purpose?
I don't Know anything about that,if anybody knows about using sub domain for mobile theme please give your suggestion.
Thank you.
I think I'm missing something, because this should be really eas
If you just want access to the file, just do a relative path with a forward slash in front!
"/[pathauto-node-title].html" will go to the path regardless of the subdomain.
Hopes that helps someone.