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7/31/2008 1:43:15 PM
Lamentations
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Re: features i need

Im not sure If I explained it right.  Basically, I want to give users a (configurable) number of virtual pages.  The url to these pages would be like I mentioned above.  so instead of www.my_domain.com/userpage.aspx?user=userbob123 would instead be userbob123.mydomain.com

With apache mod_rewrite (or IIS7 url rewriting or isapi_rewrite with IIS6), this can be done.  However, its the page itself that im not sure about.  Can users have their own pages and/or blogs which the url can be emailed to their friends or co-workers.

Ive got projects piling up and Id like to use the same cms system.  Ive come back to mojoportal because having a large site on *other* cms systems with mysql & php kinda scares me.  Id much rather have Sql server stored procedures on the backend.

I seen a reference to something that might be relevant, what is the VirtualPathProvider, can you point me to any docs on it ?

Also, I was looking at this http://www.mojoportal.com/rolesandpermissions.aspx
and at first thought this was what i was looking for, but i dont think so. 

Basically Im trying to create a myspace type community portal, but add in some url-trickery so that users can email a link to a "virtual" page that is specific to the user.

 

 

 

 

7/31/2008 2:02:50 PM
Joe Audette
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Re: features i need

In mojoportal you could create a top level page for a user and give that user both edit permission and create child page permission on that page and the user can edit this page and create as many pages beneath it as he wants, but the page would be an url like http://somesite.com/joe.aspx and there is nothing automatic to create it for new users so you would need to implement your own solution for that.

As for Url re-writing, it takes more than just url re-writing to achieve hostname style urls like http://joe.somesite.com because host names require a DNS "a" record to resolve the host name to an ip address. So until you add he DNS a record on your DNS server(s) and until it propagates around the world the hostname joe.somesite.com will not resolve to the ip address of your IIS server and therefore IIS will not get the request. And if the IIS is running more than 1 web site on the same ip  address you would also need to add a host header to IIS for each new host name so that it knows which site that hostname maps to. Those configuration requirements will not be an easy problem to solve in an automated way.

VirtualPathProvider is not for url re-writing, its for locating physical files from a virtual folder location.

Hope it helps,

Joe

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