I am hosting our website on IIS 8.5 on windows 2012 server. The application is a nodejs based application. It has index.html as the entry point.
What I want is: Whenever index.html is requested, I want to append a random string to this page. The idea is to bust the cache by appending query string.
What is the simplest way to achieve this? Should I use URL rewrite module? I looked at this post . This guy is adding some static query string. I want to add some dynamic/random query string. It could be time stamp or anything.
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I would like to create the following scenario in my web project, but as I am not pro web developer I don't know how to handle this.
Let's assume that I have project with main domain:
http://foobar.com and on this I have a links to the following subdomains:
http://xx.foobar.com
http://yy.foobar.com
I would like to that every site hosted on subdomains used the same code with only one different parameter sent to the subdomain from main page. This parameter will be a JavaScript variable. I am using Azure Web Sites from my project. The main question here is how to manage the code (now I am using Continuos Integration with GitHub) through these subdomains (the source code for every subdomain would be the same, except this one variable). Where should I start to search / read?
Are you passing any value for the parameter? Or is it just a static parameter? If it's static, you could possibly use JavaScript code to read the subdomain name in the URL.
Not sure what language you're using on the server, but you should also able to read the subdomain via server-side code.
But if its value is dynamic, the main page with the links can generate a QueryString parameter to pass along in the URL. Your implantation will vary depending on what language you've selected.
UPDATED, with additional info:
When you say "share the project source code between subdomains", do you mean that you want to deploy the same web app to multiple endpoints?
If so, you can create a separate Web App in Azure (formerly known as Azure Web Site) for each corresponding subdomain, and set up your source control to deploy to both of them whenever you check in your code.
References:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-deploy/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-publish-source-control/
Since you have no server-side code, I'm using you have only HTML/JavaScript/CSS files. So, you can write JavaScript code to read the parameter from the URL.
References:
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/prop_loc_href.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/prop_loc_pathname.asp
http://www.cssmojo.com/the_location_object/
As I mentioned earler, you would set up the links on the main index page to pass in QueryString parameters:
e.g.
Link 1: http://sub1.mywebsite.com/?param1
Link 2: http://sub2.mywebsite.com/?param2
Hope that helps!
First, make sure you point your domain to your azure website using wildcard (references)
Second, in your html head, find the subdomain using javascript and assign in to the variable you want to use
var full_url = window.location.host; // e.g. subdomain.host.com
var parts = full.split('.'); // split it
var subdomain = parts[0];
now you can use the subdomain variable to change your website based on subdomain value (e.g. change the content)
I want to copy my website (Orchard 1.7.2.0) to localhost, to test some things before I do that on the live site.
Ik copied the database and de web directory and configured iis. In the orchards database I changed the base url in the Settings_SiteSettings2PartRecord table. I also changed the database connection in settings.txt
Now when I enter the new base url in the browser I get redirected to the original url. How can I prevent this? I can't find any other reference to the original url.
Thanks in advance for your answer.
I found out what went wrong.
There was a rewrite in the database to the originial url (for removing www in the url). I removed that and now it works.
I've copied & installed the database for a Magento site for a client. I don't have much experience in Magento but I get a strange error condition
When you type in www.example.com it automatically re-writes the URL to www.example.com/sites/example.com/index.php
It also produces a 500 error as well.
Anyone got any clue on how to fix this? Please remember I am a Magento newbie.
EDIT
The problem was down to the server setup :( There was an issue with the "webroot"
go to core_config_data table. There are a couple of fields you need to edit so the urls match your http://localhost/mysite/ but make sure you have the trailing slash on the site path.
base urls
Edit these base urls
These tell the database where to point your links between pages and content.
moving files and database
I assume these two steps are obvious:
copy all of your local files to production server
dump your magento local db and import it into your production server db
editing in production server
now on your production server you need to follow these two steps:
edit app/etc/local.xml file and change database info
in production db,in its core_config_data table, you should find every records containing the url of your local installation, then you need to update those values;which can be found with this query:
SELECT *
FROM `core_config_data`
WHERE `value` LIKE 'http://%';
edit (thanks to comments):
Do not forget to delete var folder contents
I am developing a site on Codeigniter 2.0.2 . Its a site where companies/users can signup and create their own profile page, have their own custom url(like http://facebook.com/demouser), have their own feedback system, display their services.
This said, I have been successful in display the profile page in the following format
http://mainwebsite.com/company/profile/samplecompany
This displays the home page for the company samplecompany , where company is the controller and profile is the method.
Now I have few questions,
I guess it is possible to create to have/get http://mainwebsite.com/samplecompany using htaccess and a default controller. If anybody can help with the htaccess rule , that would be awesome. I am already using htacess to remove index.php from CI but could not get this working.
There will be few other pages for the given user/company such as feedback, contact us, services etc. So the implementation links that come to my mind is of the form
`
http://mainwebsite.com/company/profile/samplecompany/feedback or
http://mainwebsite.com/samplecompany/feedback
http://mainwebsite.com/company/profile/samplecompany/services or
http://mainwebsite.com/samplecompany/services
http://mainwebsite.com/company/profile/samplecompany/contactus or
http://mainwebsite.com/samplecompany/contactus
wheresamplecompany` is the dynamic part
Is it possible to create site links in the format?
I understand using A record for a given domain, I can point a domain say, http://www.samplecompany.com to http://mainwebsite.com/company/profile/samplecompany so typing http://www.samplecompany.com he should be taken to http://mainwebsite.com/company/profile/samplecompany . If this is successfully implemented, will
http://www.samplecompany.com/feedback
http://www.samplecompany.com/services
http://www.samplecompany.com/contactus
work correctly?
I guess it is possible to create to have/get http://mainwebsite.com/samplecompany using htaccess and a default controller. If anybody can help with the htaccess rule , that would be awesome. I am already using htacess to remove index.php from CI but could not get this working.
There will be few other pages for the given user/company such as feedback, contact us, services etc. So the implementation links that come to my mind is of the form ` http://mainwebsite.com/company/profile/samplecompany/feedback or http://mainwebsite.com/samplecompany/feedback
You can accomplish this using routes. For example, in your /config/routes.php file, put this:
$route['samplecompany'] = "company/profile/samplecompany";
$route['samplecompany/(:any)'] = "company/profiles/samplecompany/$1";
The first rule tells CodeIgniter that when someone accesses http://mainwebsite.com/samplecompany that it should process it as if the URL were "company/profile/samplecompany". The second rule captures anything that comes in the URI string after "samplecompany" and appends it onto the end.
However, if you have multiple companies(not just samplecompany), you're probably going to want to extend CI's router to suppor this unless you want to manually edit the config file each time a new company is added.
OK, you're definitely going to want to handle dynamic company names(as per your comment). This is a little trickier. I can't give you the full code, but I can point you in the right direction.
You'll want to extend CI's router and on an incoming request query the DB for the list of company names. If the URI segment matches a company name, you'll want to serve it up using your company/profile method. If it does not, you will ignore it and let CI handle it normally. Check out this post on this topic for more information: forum link.
Here's a great guide on how to achieve what you need: Codeigniter Vanity URL's.
In my application users have their own "websites" which can be reached if they are signed in.
However, since these websites are just directories containing html and other documents everyone in the world can reach them if they know the address. I can't have that :) A user should be able to decide whether or not thw world might see their files or not.
Can I use .htaccess to activate a PHP-script every time a request is made to that directory?
I.e. if reqested-site is "/websites/{identifier}", run is-user-allowed-to-view.php?website={identifier}
The identifier is a numeric value which refers to both a physical folder and a post in the database... and the script would then return true or false.
Or is there perhaps another way of solving the same issue?
Cheers!
You can use mod_rewrite to rewrite requests with such a URL internally to your script:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^website/([0-9]+)$ is-user-allowed-to-view.php?website=$1
But this rule is only for the URL path /website/12345 and nothing else.
Or have every page as a PHP page and just put at the top a single line to redirect if the session / cookie is incorrect or not set. Obviously wouldn't work for non-PHP content such as images.
What you need is a proper front-end (written in whatever language). You need to have your web-server (Apache in your case it seems) pass the requests to the said front-end.
You cannot do what you are asking for with just .htaccess files.