By bflora on

I have a Drupal site running OG groups. The subdomain module http://www.drupal.org/project/subdomain says that it will allow me to give my groups subdomain-style URLs, like groupname.domain.tld

I just spent 5 hours working on trying to get it to happen...and I'm stuck. I'm able to create paths for my groups in the format that I like. I.E. the path to one of my test groups is test.domain.com

However when I navigate to that URL, I'm redirected to domain.com instead of being taken to my group.

It could be a DNS problem. I've gone over my http.conf additions and A record additions, and my host has too, but we could have botched something.

That said I don't fully understand what's happening with the http.conf stuff.

It could be an issue with something else. I don't know.

But I feel like I'm quite close to getting this to work.

I will pay someone $50 if they can troubleshoot this and get it to work properly. For my site.

Thanks.

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bflora commented

There is another wrinkle.

Bizarelly, when the subdomain module is enabled, I am unable to attach files to nodes and unable to enable or disable modules. I'm betting there are other things that are breaking as well. I wonder if the subdomain module is "shorting out" something with the form API or javascript.

So that would need to be addressed, too.

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bitshift commented

Im in the same boat
Anyone got a more recent "howto" for setting up and using this module ?
Im currently going through the readme.txt and wishing there was an easier way

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bflora commented

I don't think this module works. I wish there was some way Drupal could identify busted modules to save us time.

I had a guy who knows his stuff work with me for about 4 hours trying to get this to work. He can't figure it out and says forums on other sites are full of other people who can't get it to work in D5 either.

Until I hear differently from the maintainer, I'm going to assume that this module is a bust and doesn't work.

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setvik commented

blora and I tracked the problems down to Apache's configuration and a conflict with the globalredirect module.

see http://drupal.org/node/288262
and http://drupal.org/node/287951

Just released new versions of both the 5.x and 6.x branches of subdomain. I added code that checks whether the server and Drupal are correctly configured and suggests solutions if they aren't. This should make it much simpler to track down installation issues in the future.