Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:32:19 -0400
From: LUCAS HEUMAN
To: CHRIS CRANFORD
Subject: RE: WCWEB and Host Headers
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I know it has been a long time since this was posted. But I been thinking about
how I would like to handle this same situation also.. but was thinking more of
a Conference path configuration... Example being that each domain would have a
different Email Conference area associated with it or ..
Your example modified..
-> Security Profile #1 - SP1
-> Domain: tkdsoftware.com
->
-> Security Profile #2 - SP2
-> Domain: petsutopia.com
-> Security Profile #3 - SP3
-> Domain: [nothing]
Underwebserver you would have a configuration like so under redirect .. [domain]
Entry One : default
domain : tkdsoftware.com
conf : Private E-mail [01]
compute: <default>
Entry Two : second
domain : petsutopia.com
conf : Private E-mail [04] <-- This is a different conference/public
private whatever
compute: <default>
///////////////////////////////////
The logic works a little differently here
When some one comes to petsutopia.com the webpath that is defined in the
Conference Path Section is used for the root directory, which for example would
be conference 04 path setup.
If some one comes to the IP address the default setting is used and you will be
redirected to tkdsoftware.com setup. Now the cool thing if this was setup, when
a users logs in.. His current conference can be used for the path or a setting
could be flaged or passed (http://tkdsoftware.com/login?
changeconf=04) and the petsutopia.com could then be used.
wcConfig could be setup to either change current conference based on domain
(default) or to use current conference depending.
I hope everyone follows because I think that builds on what is already here.
I'll try and come with a better write up but what do you guys think?
-Luke
On 4/12/04 11:14 PM, CHRIS CRANFORD wrote to HECTOR SANTOS:
-> Hector -
-> I wanted to bring this up before I forget what I was thinking earlier
-> today about this... and get your opinion and others as well because I
-> am not sure what the goal is in order to offer this.
-> But with that in mind, lets assume for the moment we take a multiple
-> phased approach. I'm coming from the mind-set that the demand is to
-> be able to have multiple WCWEB domains point to different WWWROOT
-> directories.
-> So, lets assume the following setup similar to things here:
-> Security Profile #1 - SP1
-> Domain: tkdsoftware.com
->
-> Security Profile #2 - SP2
-> Domain: petsutopia.com
-> Security Profile #3 - SP3
-> Domain: [nothing]
-> Now, as the web server stands today, we have:
-> wc:\http\public
-> wc:\http
-> wc:\http\template
-> These are the major player directories.
-> Now, could WCWEB be capable of reading the HTTP 'Host' header if it is passed
-> and do a lookup against the domains defined in all the security profiles?
-> If so, then could the following logic be implemented:
-> Request: http://www.petsutopia.com (not authenticated)
-> 1. WCWEB sees that the session isn't authenticated and the URI is not
-> referring to a protected document, so the request gets sent to
-> http://www.petsutopia.com/public/
-> 2. WCWEB sees the wc:\http\public\default.htm request come in and it
-> checks the web root folders in the following order:
->
-> Check Host Header wwwroot directory if exists
-> wc:\http(petsutopia.com)\public -->
-> wc5\wwwroot\petsutopia.com\public
->
-> Check Computer Config wwwroot directory if exists
-> wc:\http(tkdsoftware.com)\public -->
-> wc5\wwwroot\tkdsoftware.com\public
-> Fall back to original logic
-> wc:\http\public -> wc5\http\public
-> 3. When user logs into the web server, requests for protected
-> documents would follow a simliar pattern:
-> wc:\http(petsutopia.com)\default.htm ->
-> wc5\wwwroot\petsutopia.com\default.htm
-> wc:\http(tkdsoftware.com)\default.htm ->
-> wc5\wwwroot\tkdsoftware.com\default.htm
-> wc:\http\default.htm -> wc5\http\default.htm
-> 4. When templates are requested, simliarly:
-> wc:\http(petsutopia.com)\template\XXX.htm ->
-> wc5\wwwroot\petsutopia.com\template\XXX.htm
-> ...
-> wc:\http\template\XXX.htm -> wc5\http\template\XXX.htm
-> I know that when (or if we) get to this point to do this, it is going to
-> be a BIG change and require loads of testing ... Not sure when you have this
-> slated on the project timeline, but since this idea came to my
-> head, I certainly wanted to pass it along to you.
-> Just to recap, for non-authenticated sessions, the host header would be
-> used to initially determine the wwwroot directory path. If that path
-> does not exist, try the domain for the computer running wconline. If
-> that path does not exist, default to the current directory logic.
-> For authenticated sessions, we could just use the security profile
-> domain to determine the web root directory path instead of then relying
-> on the host headers (unless you want to always carry this thru
-> regardless).
-> Anyways, gonna grab some TV.. Chat soon.
-> Thanks,
-> Chris
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