Question thread #103

[pauamma]

It's time for another question thread!

The rules:

- You may ask any dev-related question you have in a comment. (It doesn't even need to be about Dreamwidth, although if it involves a language/library/framework/database Dreamwidth doesn't use, you will probably get answers pointing that out and suggesting a better place to ask.)
- You may also answer any question, using the guidelines given in To Answer, Or Not To Answer and in this comment thread.

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[vaska]

Hello,

Thank you.
Please tell me how to disable subdomains and use subdirectories instead?

[pauamma]

If you mean on your own Dreamwidth installation, you probably need at least to set userdomain => 0 in %CAP_DEF (in file ext/local/etc/config.pl, which you should have copied from etc/config.pl.example when setting up your site) and make sure it's not overridden in %CAP_PAID or %CAP_PREMIUM (same file). There may be other configuration items you need to change. I haven't looked at that closely in a long while.

Note, however, that Dreamwidth hasn't used subdirectories instead of subdomains for (IIRC) the whole 12 years and change it has existed, so there's no guarantee that the code handling that still works, or is fixable if it doesn't.

[vaska]

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, I'm testing DW installation in VM.
I cannot disable function or rule which redirects 'ljsite.com/~system' into 'system.ljsite.com'.
I've set "userdomain => 0" in config.pl but it did not take an effect...

Perhaps I have to edit DW/Controller/Redirect.pm but I'm not so familiar with perl.

And also there is another problem.
When I try to post something I get this:
"URLs like https://username.ljsite.com are not available for this user's account type. Insted, please use http://username.ljsite.com"

But I use http (port 80), and have set $PROTOCOL = "http" in config file.
Is it a system bug?..

[pauamma]

I'll try to have a look - or maybe poke someone who can - but I haven't been directly involved in Dreamwidth development for several years and I don't think I understood any of that part of it even then, so no guarantee.