Profile Friendly URL

Kévin Dunglas dunglas@gmail.com - http://dunglas.fr - 2010 - GPL v2

Creates friendly URLs for user's profiles as subdomains. Ie: http://example.com/pg/profile/user will become http://user.example.com

Requirements

• Access to the configuration of your DNS server
• The Apache web server (either, you need to port the rewriting rules from the .htaccess file to the syntax supported by your web server)
• PHP installed as module (as CGI, or with some restricting Apache configurations, you need to set the session.cookie_domain param of the php.ini file to something like ".yourdomain.com")

Install

1. Add a wildcard entry to your DNS server. Every should point to the web server hosting the Elgg application. You can add a Bind entry like: *.example.com. 3600 IN CNAME 10 www.example.com.
2. If you are using Apache virtual hosts, add every subdomains to the Elgg vhost like this: <VirtualHost *> ServerName example.com ServerAlias *.punxrezo.net [...] </VirtualHost>
3. Backup then replace the .htaccess file in the your root Elgg directory by the htaccess-dist file of the plugin directory. Edit this new .htaccess file and replace all occurrences of "example.com" by something like "yourdomain.com".
4. Enable the profile_friendlyurl plugin from the Elgg administration.
5. In the plugin settings form set the domain name to use.