Bulk changing affiliate publishing options has no efect on URL rewrite (SEO)

You're talking about the batch editing screen provided by Domain Content, right?

The URLs are not rewritten on the content editing screen or on all pages?

Do you have the strict SEO setting turned on?

Have you installed the _new_ version of the URL rewrite sequence and the patch that goes with it?

That is odd. Do you have a URL?

We are talking about links in the main content area, not blocks, correct?

There must be something missing in the configuration.

Are there any warnings at the top of Admin > Bulld > Domains ?

Oh, when you use the bulk update form, you must explicitly select the 'change affiliate publishing options' action. If you do not, the affiliate settings will not be processed. This is by design.

And those links are not going to the correct domain? Right now, they all point to http://tirol.routebook.com/

Are you using block cache? Page cache?

Which module is generating that block?

I tested a variant of your block successfully -- editing the parent node both through node/*/edit and the batch handler. Using code:

$query= db_query("SELECT n.nid, n.title, c.uid, c.cid, c.subject, c.timestamp FROM {node} n INNER JOIN {comments} c ON c.nid = n.nid WHERE n.status = 1 LIMIT 10");
$output = '';
while ($comment = db_fetch_object($query)) {
  $title = l($comment->subject, "node/".$comment->nid); 
  $output .= $title . '<br />';
}
print $output;

Now, the query is slightly different, but that isn't relevant.

I think there is a settings issue somewhere. There are three ways to force links to go to different domains:

1) For search request results. That is not relevant here.

2) For specific page requests (such as 'user/*/track' or 'blog/*') as defined by "Special Page Requests."

3) By turning on Search Engine Optimization -- set it to 'Rewrite all URLs to point to a single source'

In these cases, url paths are matched against the list in "Node Link Patterns." The defaut patterns are:

node/%n
comment/reply/%n
node/add/book/parent/%n
book/export/html/%n


Where %n is parsed as the node id.

Here is the issue with blocks.

1) Since they are not page requests, rule #2 does not apply to them -- unless the blocks only appear on specific pages that are mapped to the "Special Page Requests" link.

2) You must enable SEO strict in order to ensure that block links are always rewritten.

And there is another complication that may affect you. The logic inside of the URL rewrite makes the following assumption:

-- If the node is assigned to "all affiliates" then the rewritten link will always point to the main domain.
-- If the node is assigned to more than one affiliate, it will take the first match, based on domain creation order.

So this may also be the problem.

You can (as of 1.0) use the Domain Source module to specify exactly which domain you want to use when rewriting links for each node.

Attached are some shots of my configuration.

Note that if you wrap the above query in db_rewrite_sql(), it should only return comments that are visible on the active domain, and then this issue goes away, since the links do not need to be rewritten.

Domain Source, by the way, integrates with Domain Content to allow batch assignment of source domains.

Something occurs to me that might also work. If you have strict SEO turned off, in your block, try this.

global $conf;

// Turn on SEO for these links
$conf['domain_seo'] = TRUE;

$query= db_query("SELECT n.nid, n.title, c.uid, c.cid, c.subject, c.timestamp FROM {node} n INNER JOIN {comments} c ON c.nid = n.nid WHERE n.status = 1 LIMIT 10");
$output = '';
while ($comment = db_fetch_object($query)) {
  $title = l($comment->subject, "node/".$comment->nid);
  $output .= $title . '<br />';
}
print $output;

// Turn SEO back off.
$conf['domain_seo'] = FALSE;

In theory, this would temporarily enable domain rewrite rules inside you block.

Bookmarking, greetings, Martijn