SubDomain Queries

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi,

I have a requirement in my rails application where i need to provide access to a blog from another domain. e.g: blog.company.com should point to my app’s blog_controller’s show action. Is this possible.

& if it is possible, will the user see:

  1. blog.company.com/blog/some-blog
  2. myapp.com/blog/some-blog

I read a lot about Subdomain_fu. But i think it can only emulate subdomains in my own app. like (blog.myapp.com) or (company.blog.myapp.com).

I really need help on this. Any pointers or suggestions are always welcome.

Regards

2

Hi Sahil,

If someone types in blog.company.com, you will need access to the server on which that domain resides in order to redirect it to your app, it has nothing to do with how you structure your application.

If you setup a redirect, then the user will see yourapp.com/blog/:id unless you reconfigure the routes in routes.rb. The alternative so that the user sees blog.company.com is to frame your site on the company.com website although this is considered slightly 2001 and not really the done thing.

Robin

3

Apache and mod_rewrite will be your friend. I would also setup a virtualhost for the blog.company.com

But are you saying that you have mycompany.com which is a rails app and you want your blog.othercompany.com to use your blog controller?

Or when people go on your blog they should see blog.mycompany.com in the browser?

4

No, actually i am not looking for the redirection thing. What i want is the CNAME Record change of blog.company.com. I have access to this and the other domain. so, when a user goes to blog.company.com, he should see contents of the the rails_app, but the domain part of the url should not change.

Regards

Sahil

5

? So, maybe I'm not understanding the issue.

Create a virtual host for blog.company.com and install your blog app there. No redirection, no url change.

Yes?

6

Yes, i think you are right.

Thanks.