Crossdomain TinyMCE

Question

Hi,

folling this discussion and this link, I learnt that by adding document.domain = 'mydomain.com'; to the tinyMCE initializer file and tiny_mce_popup.js i can overcome the cross domain problem.

I haven't tested it on a proper production server, but in my dev environment the base domain is localhost:8000 and my static files (also tinyMCE ones) are on localhost:88.

Adding document.domain = 'localhost:8000'; or document.domain = 'localhost:88'; doesn't solve the problem as I get the following error:

Uncaught Error: SECURITY_ERR: DOM Exception 18

Any help?

Thanks

Answer 1

The document.domain setting only works if your using subdomains, not completely different domains (different ports count as different domains). So you can have server1.mydomain.com and server2.mydomain.com, in which case you set domain to mydomain.com in both the main page and tiny_mce_popup.js. You can't however use mydomain.com and otherdomain.com. For more information on these restrictions see https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/document.domain or http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc196989(VS.85).aspx

I believe there are plans to adjust the way TinyMCE works so that it can have a CDN version which is usable from any domain, but that doesn't currently exist.

Regards,

Adrian Sutton
http://tinymce.ephox.com