Can we have multi-level subdomain in Rails like this?
sub1.sub2.mysite.com
Imran
A:
I don't see any reason why you couldn't have a subdomain of a subdomain being used in a rails app.
You'll want to setup a wildcard A record in your domain DNS and configure your http server to accept wildcard server aliases.
Then in your application_controller you'll probably want a before_filter that does some juju with
request.host
to do whatever you want, be it
Account.find_by_domain(parsed_request_host) or whatever.
Mark Connell
2009-09-08 18:45:00
Roger/Mark, thanks for the reply.Well, now it clear to me that we can achieve multi-level sub-domains.Let me proceed a bit further with my actual requirement. In my Rails application a user can have multiple categories and then multiple items associated with one category. Consider the following scenario:Domain:site.comGroup:G1 Items:i1,i2Group:G2 Items: i1,i2Now,the requirement is to have a different URL for each item. Considering the above data we'll have following URLs:http://i1.G1.site.comhttp://i2.G1.site.comhttp://i1.G2.site.comhttp://i2.G2.site.comPlease advise.
Imran
2009-09-09 15:47:45
+1
A:
Yes, you can check the subdomain the app is accessed from using request.subdomains
But if you are going to do something more advanced you should probably use subdomain-fu
Roger Ertesvag
2009-09-08 19:51:11