Change the URL route

[Kless]

Would be possible to change the URL route related to users?

from: www.mysite.com/username/
to: username.mysite.com

[Bruno Bornsztein]

Not very easily; you could do it, but you'd have to change the default CE routes (look in routes.rb) and also set up your server for wildcard subdomains (*.mysite.com). Do-able, but not really worth the time in my opinion.

[Sytse Sijbrandij]

Dear Kless,

I changed the URL route for users from www.mysite.com/username/ to
www.mysite.com/users/username/
This is not the subdomain solution you asked for but it does prevent
URL path conflicts in our setup. If you are interested please refer to
http://github.com/dosire/communityengine/commit/5c1b4012401f98a2a078a9588d5eda86d81d57d6

Best regards,
Sytse Sijbrandij


On Sep 30, 10:05 pm, "Bruno Bornsztein" <bruno.bornszt...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Not very easily; you could do it, but you'd have to change the default CE
> routes (look in routes.rb) and also set up your server for wildcard
> subdomains (*.mysite.com). Do-able, but not really worth the time in my
> opinion.
>

[samotage]

Very nice!

Though there are some implications of this little change:

One that springs to mind is the helper method for sitemap.xml, that
needs the helper method be modified to support the new path. I am
sure there may be others.

Sam.