Addon as subdomain

[Jean-Baptiste]

Hello,

My whole forum is using classic URLs, as an example, my resource manager is at board.com/resources.

But I would like, for some specifics add-on (we will call it videos as an example), to make this addon available at videos.board.com only. And there would be a redirection from board.com/videos to videos.board.com.

I saw something like this at DigitalPoints, example : https://tools.digitalpoint.com/.

Best regards.

 

[Sheratan]

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/1-2-rc1-sub-domain-as-route.55217/

I tried to do the same right now, but had no luck.

Reading what digitalpoint said:

The way I did it is so complicated and absurd, it's not even worth trying to replicate. It will probably break on an update anyway...

Having XenForo routes for specific sub-domains is probably one of the hackiest things I've ever done... it didn't require any file edits, but well... let's just say I don't really expect it to work on any XF update unfortunately.

It does require "exploiting" the way Zend Framework works and some hacky things *it* does with certain web servers (namely IIS). I'm not using IIS, I'm just taking advantage of some stuff Zend does for IIS servers.

http://admin-talk.com/threads/digitalpoint-now-running-xenforo.42829/page-2#post-484932

And I'm not a PHP expert anyway.

 

[Jean-Baptiste]

@digitalpoint, have you found a new way to do it ? If yes or no, could you release the actual "hack" you are using ?

 

[digitalpoint]

Nope, still doing it the retarded way unfortunately...

 

[AndyB]

Curious what advantages there are to having the URL as videos.board.com as opposed the the default board.com/videos.

 

[Jeremy]

Personal preference, but for the majority of resources, it won't give any structural differences. Digital Point has several sub-sections to a lot of his sections, so placing them in a separate "site" (ie, tools.digitalpoint.com) allows a structural methodology shift.

 

[digitalpoint]

Curious what advantages there are to having the URL as videos.board.com as opposed the the default board.com/videos.

Let's you more easily use different servers for different parts of site since you can resolve a sub-domain to a different IP... Beyond that, it's just personal preference.

 

[Jean-Baptiste]

Curious what advantages there are to having the URL as videos.board.com as opposed the the default board.com/videos.

With that you can host the video addon on an other server.