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Simple microblogging network based on the ostatus protocol.
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Subdomain support #718

Closed carols10cents closed 11 years ago

carols10cents commented 11 years ago

Do we support installation and use of rstat.us on a subdomain (such as rstatus-staging.herokuapp.com)?

I think I may be about to introduce a bug having to do with this, while working on the PR for Issue #698 that checks if we should look at the users on the current node or not... I'll explain more when I get that in.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were other issues with running on a subdomain though, since I don't think it's been thoroughly tested.

wilkie commented 11 years ago

Why would it not work? I have several running on a couple of subdomains. I'm not sure how you would be able to introduce a regression either.

carols10cents commented 11 years ago

lol. i was sleepy and being stupid while working on https://github.com/hotsh/rstat.us/pull/720... i think i've figured out the right way.

I still have some concerns about nodes using optional www, since ostensibly you could follow someone@www.whatever.com OR someone@whatever.com, and right now we're looking at the root_url to see if we're on the local node, which could ALSO be www.whatever.com OR whatever.com.... but oh well. we'll deal with that when someone complains.

wilkie commented 11 years ago

A relic of the internet, I'm afraid. Generally should discourage www as a subdomain for nodes. Use 'status' or something.

If they indeed point to the same XRD for the site, the template would have to produce a canonical subdomain to retrieve user information consistently. The app would have to be configured for that, but a dns redirect and reading the response subdomain would also suffice.

I very much dislike the fact that rstat.us enforces the www.