[pLog-svn] update to multi-domain stuff.

Christoph Feddersen feddersen at herr-der-ringe-film.de
Mon Jan 23 19:03:21 GMT 2006



Jon Daley wrote:
>     Hrm. to further clarify: if you put a * that means you need to type 
> the full domain in the text box.  Maybe I should change it to something 
> else, because now I think you meant that the * would be under all other 
> domains listed in the drop box, which isn't what it does, and I don't 
> think I want it to do that.
Yep, that's what I was thinking.


>     The goal of the * feature is to allow people to host with somebody, 
> but still use my own domain, so if I want to switch away from you at 
> some point, I can.  The thought being (at least with the guy who asked 
> me to implement this) is that if people can use their own domain, they 
> are more likely to sign up with him, and so he gets a customer.  I have 
> not idea if that actually happens in the real world.  I think most 
> admins will not use the * but instead be able to have different 
> subdomain names that aren't the username or the blogname, and so be more 
> flexible with the choice of URLs.
Both things are pretty cool features. I think someone in the forums was 
asking for a wildcard feature, which makes a blog reachable under 
several domains. But I do agree that rewrite rules will be much easier 
to cover this.


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