[pLog-svn] dynamic blog settings?

Christoph Feddersen feddersen at herr-der-ringe-film.de
Wed Jan 25 09:11:07 GMT 2006



Jon Daley wrote:
> The complex one is when the site-admin types in a '?' in the available 
> domains.  Then, any user can specify any domain he wants in the blog 
> settings, as long as that domain is pointing to the current ip (and 
> perhaps the validator could check the dns, and at least give a warning 
> if the dns isn't right).  So, I could host limedaley.com, groshlink.net, 
> sca.salemsattic.com and jon.limedaley.com all on the same lifetype 
> installation, with myself as the site admin, and all other users as blog 
> owners.
> 
> Now does it make sense?

I don't know how your current server configuration looks like, but 
adding new domains (DNS, apache config etc) is normally a manual or 
semi-automated task for the server admin.
So a user/customer has to contact you if he wants to use is own domain 
name with lifetype. You'll add the domain to your server and reply to 
your customer that he can register with his domain or change his blog 
settings.

Possible Danger: Once you configured your server to work with the new 
domain name everyone could use this domain for his blog. There's no 
check if the user is allowed to use this particular domain.

So to my mind, it would be more secure if only the site-admin can assign 
domains to blogs.


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