Forum Display Enhancements - Different Domain, Different Style

This is a simple add-on which will force users to a specific style based on the url the user visited.

I wrote this with the idea of being able to create a subdomain of mobile.domainname.com and have visitirs to that URL forced to a mobile style whilst visitors to my normal site (domainname.com or www.domainname.com) would be rpesented with my regular style.

Alternatively if you have 2 domain names which point to the same forum, you can have a customized style based on the domain name visited. You can do what you want, but it may be as simple as only having a different banner reflecting the host name visited, or if you have merged 2 forums - users could still get the same skin they always have had if they continue to visit the same URL.

With the HOST matching be aware that if the URL specified in the add-on matches anywhere in the url visited, the add-on will be triggered.

e.g. if URL specified in add-on = domainname.com, any subdomains of domainname.com will match this.

Version Information
1.0.0 - Initial release ported from 3.6 version
1.0.1 - Fixed missing Setting Group Name


product-ddds37.xml supports a single additional domain
product-ddds37_5-domain-version.xml supports one to five additional domains

To upgrade, simply import and allow overwrite.

[ls7]

Originally Posted by dartho

Check your .htaccess file to make sure you don;t have any redirects in there - I noticed that ontractdriver.com redirects to www.ontrackdriver.com

Here is my .htaccess file. Would you mind having a look and letting me know if there are redirects in there? (sorry, I am not sure how to decipher)

# Comment the following line (add '#' at the beginning)
# to disable mod_rewrite functions.
# Please note: you still need to disable the hack in
# the vBSEO control panel to stop url rewrites.
RewriteEngine On

# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be
# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)
# Please note: when enabled, you must include the path
# to your root vB folder (i.e. RewriteBase /forums/)
#RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.ontrackdriver\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.ontrackdriver.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|chat|cron)
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php(/.*)?)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

[dartho]

I'm no expert in this area, but I'm guessing that:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.ontrackdriver\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.ontrackdriver.com/$1 [L,R=301]

is the issue. If it is what it looks like, it is redirecting all URL's which are NOT www.ontrackdriver.com to www.ontrackdriver.com

This would indeed redirect m.ontrackdriver.com to www.ontrackdriver.com

VBSEO would do this as it is good SEO to only have content listed on a single domain name, in this case it's www.ontrackdriver.com. I'd suggest changing this to:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^ontrackdriver\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.ontrackdriver.com/$1 [L,R=301]

This will then redirect URL's which don't have the www, but leave all others alone. The only other there will be is m.ontrackdriver.com and we don;t want this redirected anyway.

As I said, I'm no expert in this, so rather than delete the lines, copy then and then comment out the originals with a leading '#' character to make reversal easy if need be. You could even do a quick initial test by just commenting out that section altogther before editing.

hope this helps

[ls7]

Thanks, dartho. Commenting out the code worked. But changing it to the code you suggested doesn't work (returns 500 level server error).

At least it appears to be working right now, will continue to test. Is having the code commented out a viable long term solution? Or will that leave vbseo or anything else affected?

[dartho]

Yeah - I got that previous code quite wrong - try removing the '!' or try the following

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^ontrackdriver.com$ 
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://www.ontrackdriver.com/$1 [R=301,L]

by not havng the code there, SEO 'experts' suggest you are possibly diluting your Google ranking by having 2 domains publishing the same content (the two domains being www.yourdomain.com and yourdomain.com). My uneducated view is that in the case of a www prefix, google et al wouldn't be that dumb - but it's easy to do (when you know how) so it can;t really hurt.

[ls7]

Originally Posted by dartho

Yeah - I got that previous code quite wrong - try removing the '!' or try the following

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^ontrackdriver.com$ 
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://www.ontrackdriver.com/$1 [R=301,L]

by not havng the code there, SEO 'experts' suggest you are possibly diluting your Google ranking by having 2 domains publishing the same content (the two domains being www.yourdomain.com and yourdomain.com). My uneducated view is that in the case of a www prefix, google et al wouldn't be that dumb - but it's easy to do (when you know how) so it can;t really hurt.

Hmmm. That code doesn't work, either. Possibly another typo somewhere?

[dartho]

As mentioned - I'm no expert in this rewrites .... how about:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.ontrackdriver\.com [AND]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^m\.ontrackdriver\.com 
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.ontrackdriver.com/$1 [L,R=301]

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[trainer]

currently have this setup

http://www.site1.com/forums/

shares the forums with

http://www.site2.com/forums/

issue is i am not logged in when i goto the new site forums. everything else seems to be working fine

thanks

[giorgiotave]

Hi

I have some error:

Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Unknown modifier 'f' in [path]/global.php(243) : eval()'d code on line 158

This product can be used with php4?

[shahryar_neo]

Originally Posted by giorgiotave

Hi

I have some error:


This product can be used with php4?

i've a same problem !

[yaku]

Originally Posted by giorgiotave

Hi

I have some error:

This product can be used with php4?

I had the same problem and saw this in the previous version:

All fixed. The errors you were getting were caused by including "http://" with the domain name.

There is also no need to include "www"

For example, "myforum.com" will match "myforum.com" "www.myforum.com" and "wap.myforum.org" - the leading http:// is just a protocol declaration and not a part pf the domain name.

Go to 1) vBulletin Options
2) Different domain, different style
3) Domain Style?

Take out the www and the "http"

That fixed the problem for me.


Love this add-on...great stuff!