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diff --git a/mod/profile_friendlyurl/README.markdown b/mod/profile_friendlyurl/README.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..75637bac5 --- /dev/null +++ b/mod/profile_friendlyurl/README.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +Profile Friendly URL +=================== +*Kévin Dunglas <dunglas@gmail.com> - http://lapin-blanc.net - 2010 - GPL v2* + +Creates friendly URLs for user's profiles as subdomains. +Ie: http://example.com/pg/profile/user will become http://user.example.com + +Requirements +------------ +* Access to the configuration of your DNS server +* The Apache web server (either, you need to port the rewriting rules from the .htaccess file to the syntax supported by your web server) +* PHP installed as module (as CGI, or with some restricting Apache configurations, you need to set the `session.cookie_domain` param of the `php.ini` file to something like ".yourdomain.com") + +Install +------- +1. Add a wildcard entry to your DNS server. Every should point to the web server hosting the Elgg application. + You can add a Bind entry like: *.example.com. 3600 IN CNAME 10 www.example.com. +2. If you are using Apache virtual hosts, add every subdomains to the Elgg vhost like this: + <VirtualHost *> + ServerName example.com + ServerAlias *.punxrezo.net + [...] + </VirtualHost> +3. Backup then replace the .htaccess file in the your root Elgg directory by the htaccess-dist file of the plugin directory. + Edit this new .htaccess file and replace all occurrences of "example.com" by something like "yourdomain.com". +4. Enable the profile_friendlyurl plugin from the Elgg administration. +5. In the plugin settings form set the domain name to use. |