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Staren
Xoops and domain masking?

  • 2005/2/21 19:40

  • Staren

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Hi everyone,

First off I am new to XOOPS and so far I am loving it. I futzed around with Mambo for months (it being the simplest yet still powerful CMS I could find) and never got to the point where I was comfortable enough with the system to start working on content. I installed XOOPS yesterday afternoon and within an hour I was done getting a basic feel for the interface and was working on the real site. I have to complement the designers of this great CMS for putting together a such powerful and customizable system that is at the same time is so simple to pick up and use.

Anyway, here is my main question. Is XOOPS designed to still work with masked domains? With Mambo I had to open a bit of a security hole to make the log-in script work through a frame that hid the sites real url.
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brash
Re: Xoops and domain masking?

  • 2005/2/21 21:23

  • brash

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  • Since: 2003/4/10


Yes you can, I've done it myself. Just make sure the XOOPS_URL value in your mainfile.php reflects your masked domain. This is going from memory, so if it doesn't work let us know .
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Staren
Re: Xoops and domain masking?

  • 2005/2/21 22:41

  • Staren

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There must be something else that has to be changed. Altering just that gives you a blank page. You can't access anything. Thanks for pointing me to the right place.
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brash
Re: Xoops and domain masking?

  • 2005/2/21 23:36

  • brash

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Are you able to give a bit more deatil on how you are masking this domain? I used the masking service provided by my DNS host, which worked a treat. If you don't have anything like this available, then things get a little bit more complex.
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Staren
Re: Xoops and domain masking?

  • 2005/2/21 23:40

  • Staren

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  • Since: 2005/2/21


The masking should be pretty standard. It is the service provided by GoDaddy where the domain is parked. The site is physicaly at http://www.anime-fiction.net/xoops and the domain masked over that address is http://www.morawski.us When I change the xoops_url variable in mainfile.php to the second domain, nothing will load. It just sits on a blank page.
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brash
Re: Xoops and domain masking?

  • 2005/2/22 0:35

  • brash

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  • Since: 2003/4/10


Make sure you clear you templates_c directory
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Staren
Re: Xoops and domain masking?

  • 2005/2/22 1:16

  • Staren

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Ok...didn't help. Cleared templates_c of everything but the index.php and reuploaded mainfile.php.

Here is the code in mainfile.php I changed

// XOOPS Virtual Path (URL)
// Virtual path to your main XOOPS directory WITHOUT trailing slash
// Example: define('XOOPS_URL', 'http://www.anime-fiction.net/xoops');
define('XOOPS_URL', 'http://www.morawski.us');

I don't see any other places xoops_url is defined.
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brash
Re: Xoops and domain masking?

  • 2005/2/22 2:17

  • brash

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  • Since: 2003/4/10


Aha, I see now. If you access http://www.morawski.us you can see that it is trying to load from http://www.anime-fiction.net/xoops . The redirection is working, but there is no domain cloaking in place. If you want http://www.morawski.us to point to http://www.anime-fiction.net/xoops, but have http://www.morawski.us always displayed in the URL, then you will need to cloak it.
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Staren
Re: Xoops and domain masking?

  • 2005/2/22 2:24

  • Staren

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  • Since: 2005/2/21


Great. I guess I'll have to just turn masking off and let it do a basic redirect. All GoDaddy offers is the redirect and masking. Unless I can do the cloaking via meta tags. Thanks for all your help.
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brash
Re: Xoops and domain masking?

  • 2005/2/22 2:31

  • brash

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  • Since: 2003/4/10


What happens if you just set the XOOPS_URL to http://www.anime-fiction.net/xoops ? Also might be worth looking up their terminology of masking, as I think it is the same as cloaking.
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