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Setting up user's personal blog as subdomain
Right now we use user's login name as a subdomain for user's blog.
for example webmaster.lampcms.com is a personal blog (more than just a blog, also albums, etc)
of user 'webmaster'
But I am thinking that we should allow user's to pick their own name for sub-domain and not tie it to their username. For example user 'johnny' wants to have a blog on url 'superman.lampcms.com'
This will make setting up a personal page a bit more complicated but will allow a better way to allow GFC or (maybe Facebook connect) users to setup their blog. This is because these users don't really have a username on our system, so we don't have a good way to automatically assign a sub-domain to them.
Basically using login name as subdomain is a good old proven way to setup personal sites and we should keep it, but what to do about GFC user? I want a GFC user to also start blogging as soon as possible.
This has to be worked out in the future.
for example webmaster.lampcms.com is a personal blog (more than just a blog, also albums, etc)
of user 'webmaster'
But I am thinking that we should allow user's to pick their own name for sub-domain and not tie it to their username. For example user 'johnny' wants to have a blog on url 'superman.lampcms.com'
This will make setting up a personal page a bit more complicated but will allow a better way to allow GFC or (maybe Facebook connect) users to setup their blog. This is because these users don't really have a username on our system, so we don't have a good way to automatically assign a sub-domain to them.
Basically using login name as subdomain is a good old proven way to setup personal sites and we should keep it, but what to do about GFC user? I want a GFC user to also start blogging as soon as possible.
This has to be worked out in the future.
