Hi, I've followed the instructions and patched the files. I had to manually patch the .htaccess file, although I think I've done it correctly. I got my host to enable wildcard although I haven't edited httpd.conf as I wasn't sure whether this was part of enabling wildcard, in which case my host should have done it (?). If not, where would I find this file?

I've followed along with the other instructions and would like to enable the subdomain module for users. The admin that was originally setup then aliased to:

site.com/adminadmin

After setup I created a test user, but the alias is:

~jboojboo

This is after having the automatic aliases set to [subdomain][user-raw]. Any idea where I might have gone wrong?

Thanks for any help.

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Jboo commented

Ok, I have this working!

It seems the settings.php file doesn't override in drupal 6 without CHMODing the whole folder, so the patched settings.php hadn't copied across. Should I also be patching the default.settings.php which is found in sites/default as well as settings.php?

I have placed [subdomain] in the user alias settings and it seems to be working great.

Thanks.

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setvik commented

Hi Jboo,

Nope, you only need to patch settings.php. You can leave default.settings.php untouched. It's unused by Drupal.

Glad you got it working :-).

Take care,

Stein

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Jboo commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Thanks Stein, great module :-)

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Jboo commented
Status: Fixed » Active

Hmm, I thought this was working, it seemed to be, but when going to where a users page should be I'm redirected to http://jboo.site.com/404.html. The links throughout the site link correctly to the subdomain for users but they are all then direct to 404. Is this a problem with the way I've setup the module or could my host have altered something? This is strange because it was working and I can't remember changing anything that might have affected the module!

Thanks for any help.

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bflora commented

I am having a similar problem. Did you get this fixed? All of my subdomain links dump me to my front page instead of the group they're supposed to take me too. Incredibly frustrating.

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broomy commented

Not yet, I'm trying to remember what I might have altered but I can't think of anything relating to the module.

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setvik commented

@jboo: sounds like Apache isn't rewriting your subdomain URLs correctly.

1 - Is Clean URLs enabled and working (that's a requirement i neglected to mention in the readme.txt)?

2 - have you updated pathauto's punctuation settings to allow ~'s in paths?

3 - Go through my reply in http://drupal.org/node/287951 and see if that helps.

Let me know how it goes.

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setvik commented
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)
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Jboo commented

Thanks for the reply setvik. In response to your questions:

1 - yes, clean urls seem to be working fine

2 - the tilde option under punctuation settings reads "No action (do not replace)"

3 - my htaccess was slightly different on one line. I've changed to your suggestion in the post so the changes are:

Before:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=~%1/$1 [L,QSA]

After:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=~%1/$1 [L]

I'm on a shared host. I tried backing up my index.php for the test but the subdomain still doesn't work as I was just directed to a 404 page. The thing is it looks like it's working in terms of the redirect to subdomain.site.com on internal links of my site, and also once logging in as a user I get directed to subdomain.site.com, so that seems ok. BUT, whenever that page is reached it immediately goes to subdomain.site.com/404.html.

I had this working once so I can't see what I've altered that might have affected this module. I'll also contact my host to see if their have been any changes.

Thanks again for your support.

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Jboo commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Fixed

Ok, the problem was with my host! I contacted them and the response was:

"For some reason after the migration to php5/mysql5 it looks as if the * subdomain was removed from the apache configuration"

Thanks for pointing out the possible error setvik, I appreciate the support; great module.

Thanks

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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.