website alias frontend

[Colman]

I couldn't think of a concise way to describe this in the Subject!
Anyways...

I am creating a PHP/MySQL driven website. I would like to provide
other users a sort of customized front-end PHP script which they can
install on their own server which will basically act as an alias for
my site; that is, when someone goes to WWW.THEIR-SITE.COM they
actually see and interract with the content on WWW.MY-SITE.COM,
passing back and forth the same GET, POST, and COOKIE vars (uh...
that's all I need, right?). I don't just want to forward/redirect
them to my site; I want the user to use WWW.THEIR-SITE.COM in the URL
and any links in the page (this front-end script would also contain
some kind of authentication for "connecting" to my site - but one
thing at a time!).

I've tinkered with:
INCLUDE() - causes problems by using relative paths.
FILE_GET_CONTENTS() - see the content well, but can't see GET and POST
vars.

Any suggestions for a solution or at least a better set of keywords to
search the newsgroups? Thanks in advance for any help!

[Chung Leong]

The solution is called DNS and virtual hosting.

Uzytkownik "Colman" <co***************@rominato.com> napisal w wiadomosci
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I couldn't think of a concise way to describe this in the Subject!
Anyways...

I am creating a PHP/MySQL driven website. I would like to provide
other users a sort of customized front-end PHP script which they can
install on their own server which will basically act as an alias for
my site; that is, when someone goes to WWW.THEIR-SITE.COM they
actually see and interract with the content on WWW.MY-SITE.COM,
passing back and forth the same GET, POST, and COOKIE vars (uh...
that's all I need, right?). I don't just want to forward/redirect
them to my site; I want the user to use WWW.THEIR-SITE.COM in the URL
and any links in the page (this front-end script would also contain
some kind of authentication for "connecting" to my site - but one
thing at a time!).

I've tinkered with:
INCLUDE() - causes problems by using relative paths.
FILE_GET_CONTENTS() - see the content well, but can't see GET and POST
vars.

Any suggestions for a solution or at least a better set of keywords to
search the newsgroups? Thanks in advance for any help!

[Jochen Daum]

Hi!

On 2 Feb 2004 13:35:52 -0800, co***************@rominato.com (Colman)
wrote:

I couldn't think of a concise way to describe this in the Subject!
Anyways...

I am creating a PHP/MySQL driven website. I would like to provide
other users a sort of customized front-end PHP script which they can
install on their own server which will basically act as an alias for
my site; that is, when someone goes to WWW.THEIR-SITE.COM they
actually see and interract with the content on WWW.MY-SITE.COM,
passing back and forth the same GET, POST, and COOKIE vars (uh...
that's all I need, right?). I don't just want to forward/redirect
them to my site; I want the user to use WWW.THEIR-SITE.COM in the URL
and any links in the page (this front-end script would also contain
some kind of authentication for "connecting" to my site - but one
thing at a time!).

I've tinkered with:
INCLUDE() - causes problems by using relative paths.
FILE_GET_CONTENTS() - see the content well, but can't see GET and POST
vars.

Any suggestions for a solution or at least a better set of keywords to
search the newsgroups? Thanks in advance for any help!

Write some kind of proxy with the curl extension or Snoopy on
Sourceforge.

HTH, Jochen
--
Jochen Daum - CANS Ltd.
PHP DB Edit Toolkit -- PHP scripts for building
database editing interfaces.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpdbedittk/

[CountScubula]

my 2 cents:

if you are trying to host an entire site this way, dude, just use dns, and a
virtual host, or heck, just add lines in the .conf file:

ServerName www.my-site.com
ServerAlias www.thier-site.com
ServerAlias www.thier-site2.com

if you are just wanting parts of content, then use file() or do some socket
stuff.
--
Mike Bradley
http://www.gzentools.com -- free online php tools
"Colman" <co***************@rominato.com> wrote in message
news:4a**************************@posting.google.c om...

I couldn't think of a concise way to describe this in the Subject!
Anyways...

I am creating a PHP/MySQL driven website. I would like to provide
other users a sort of customized front-end PHP script which they can
install on their own server which will basically act as an alias for
my site; that is, when someone goes to WWW.THEIR-SITE.COM they
actually see and interract with the content on WWW.MY-SITE.COM,
passing back and forth the same GET, POST, and COOKIE vars (uh...
that's all I need, right?). I don't just want to forward/redirect
them to my site; I want the user to use WWW.THEIR-SITE.COM in the URL
and any links in the page (this front-end script would also contain
some kind of authentication for "connecting" to my site - but one
thing at a time!).

I've tinkered with:
INCLUDE() - causes problems by using relative paths.
FILE_GET_CONTENTS() - see the content well, but can't see GET and POST
vars.

Any suggestions for a solution or at least a better set of keywords to
search the newsgroups? Thanks in advance for any help!

[Colman]

Thanks for your responses!
--1--
Socket Stuff / Proxy / Curl / Snoopy ... My knowledge is completely
lacking in these areas. I will try to investigate.
--2--
DNS / Virtual hosting ... I think I see where you guys are going with
this (I'm not entirely knowledgable in that area and will look into
it), but it sounds like -- and please correct me if I'm wrong -- that
by going that route I will be unable to (as hinted in my original
post*) insert a script in between which will handle some
authentification for the "connection" between MY-SITE and the
requesting/client THEIR-SITE script and be invisible to the user.
That is, the site using this front-end script is basically accessing
only a subset of my site's entire content.

Therefore, what I would like to have happen is when someone goes to
WWW.MY-SITE.COM they will have access to everything, but when someone
goes to WWW.THEIR-SITE.COM, the front-end script at THEIR-SITE makes a
request of some kind (include()?) from MY-SITE in a way which would
identify itself as THEIR-SITE by providing the proper authentication
and then MY-SITE would return the appropriate content.

I Hope I'm making sense. Perhaps DNS/Virtual hosting can do this for
me? I certainly wouldn't have access to the conf files on any of
these servers.

* (this front-end script would also contain some kind of
authentication for "connecting" to my site - but one thing at a time!)
-- Original Post --
co***************@rominato.com (Colman) wrote in message news:<4a**************************@posting.google. com>...

I couldn't think of a concise way to describe this in the Subject!
Anyways...

I am creating a PHP/MySQL driven website. I would like to provide
other users a sort of customized front-end PHP script which they can
install on their own server which will basically act as an alias for
my site; that is, when someone goes to WWW.THEIR-SITE.COM they
actually see and interract with the content on WWW.MY-SITE.COM,
passing back and forth the same GET, POST, and COOKIE vars (uh...
that's all I need, right?). I don't just want to forward/redirect
them to my site; I want the user to use WWW.THEIR-SITE.COM in the URL
and any links in the page (this front-end script would also contain
some kind of authentication for "connecting" to my site - but one
thing at a time!).

I've tinkered with:
INCLUDE() - causes problems by using relative paths.
FILE_GET_CONTENTS() - see the content well, but can't see GET and POST
vars.

Any suggestions for a solution or at least a better set of keywords to
search the newsgroups? Thanks in advance for any help!

[CountScubula]

The dns/virtual hosting is nothing more than serveral names for the same
website, thus no reason for authentication.

This is the best/simplest way to have more than one domain name for a web
site, you will have complete controll over it, not the client, thus
eliminating the *nned* for authentication.

NOW, if you are only wanting to allow access to certain parts of the
website, this too can be done easily (in linux), but we still do not know
what you are trying to do, tell us what you are doing not what you think you
need to do. I mean this only, becouse I think you are trying to allow
access to parts of your data, no entire site, you you are doing affiliate
sites, every goal, has a differnt solution

--
Mike Bradley
http://www.gzentools.com -- free online php tools
"Colman" <co***************@rominato.com> wrote in message
news:4a**************************@posting.google.c om...

Thanks for your responses!
--1--
Socket Stuff / Proxy / Curl / Snoopy ... My knowledge is completely
lacking in these areas. I will try to investigate.
--2--
DNS / Virtual hosting ... I think I see where you guys are going with
this (I'm not entirely knowledgable in that area and will look into
it), but it sounds like -- and please correct me if I'm wrong -- that
by going that route I will be unable to (as hinted in my original
post*) insert a script in between which will handle some
authentification for the "connection" between MY-SITE and the
requesting/client THEIR-SITE script and be invisible to the user.
That is, the site using this front-end script is basically accessing
only a subset of my site's entire content.

Therefore, what I would like to have happen is when someone goes to
WWW.MY-SITE.COM they will have access to everything, but when someone
goes to WWW.THEIR-SITE.COM, the front-end script at THEIR-SITE makes a
request of some kind (include()?) from MY-SITE in a way which would
identify itself as THEIR-SITE by providing the proper authentication
and then MY-SITE would return the appropriate content.

I Hope I'm making sense. Perhaps DNS/Virtual hosting can do this for
me? I certainly wouldn't have access to the conf files on any of
these servers.

* (this front-end script would also contain some kind of
authentication for "connecting" to my site - but one thing at a time!)
-- Original Post --
co***************@rominato.com (Colman) wrote in message

news:<4a**************************@posting.google. com>...

I couldn't think of a concise way to describe this in the Subject!
Anyways...

I am creating a PHP/MySQL driven website. I would like to provide
other users a sort of customized front-end PHP script which they can
install on their own server which will basically act as an alias for
my site; that is, when someone goes to WWW.THEIR-SITE.COM they
actually see and interract with the content on WWW.MY-SITE.COM,
passing back and forth the same GET, POST, and COOKIE vars (uh...
that's all I need, right?). I don't just want to forward/redirect
them to my site; I want the user to use WWW.THEIR-SITE.COM in the URL
and any links in the page (this front-end script would also contain
some kind of authentication for "connecting" to my site - but one
thing at a time!).

I've tinkered with:
INCLUDE() - causes problems by using relative paths.
FILE_GET_CONTENTS() - see the content well, but can't see GET and POST
vars.

Any suggestions for a solution or at least a better set of keywords to
search the newsgroups? Thanks in advance for any help!

[Colman]

First (in case it matters) I'm developing all this stuff with
PHP/MySQL/Apache on a Win2k machine and my webhost acct runs on some
flavor of BSD; I don't have all the version numbers handy.

The core structure of my site is based on a "folder tree" scheme, with
each folder having content and subfolders. These relationships are
all defined and the content stored in a MySQL db. That is, the
folders don't actually exist anywhere except as records in the db.

So basically I would want the front-end script to provide users of
THEIR-SITE to only have access to a certain branch of the folder tree
on MY-SITE and still be able to use all the features (searching,
discussion, joining, etc.) which are built in to MY-SITE.

It would be like setting up say... imagine if SLASHDOT.ORG provided
you with a front-end script that allowed you to use COUNTSCUBULA.COM
as an alias for just SLASHDOT'S SCIENCE section, and the scripts on
SLASHDOT were savvy enough to provide users of COUNTSCUBULA with the
appropriate URLs/links and a different CSS and banner.

Am I making any sense?

[CountScubula]

Yes, this was my question, I thought you were doing something like this,
only providing partial content.

if it is purely subdirecty driven, and nothing dynamic, you can use a
virtual host entry, pointed to that sub directory.

Now if you want to provide dynamic content to users, then set your site up
this way from the beginging, have scripts on thier site that call scripts on
your site for the conentent.

--
Mike Bradley
http://www.gzentools.com -- free online php tools
"Colman" <co***************@rominato.com> wrote in message
news:4a**************************@posting.google.c om...

First (in case it matters) I'm developing all this stuff with
PHP/MySQL/Apache on a Win2k machine and my webhost acct runs on some
flavor of BSD; I don't have all the version numbers handy.

The core structure of my site is based on a "folder tree" scheme, with
each folder having content and subfolders. These relationships are
all defined and the content stored in a MySQL db. That is, the
folders don't actually exist anywhere except as records in the db.

So basically I would want the front-end script to provide users of
THEIR-SITE to only have access to a certain branch of the folder tree
on MY-SITE and still be able to use all the features (searching,
discussion, joining, etc.) which are built in to MY-SITE.

It would be like setting up say... imagine if SLASHDOT.ORG provided
you with a front-end script that allowed you to use COUNTSCUBULA.COM
as an alias for just SLASHDOT'S SCIENCE section, and the scripts on
SLASHDOT were savvy enough to provide users of COUNTSCUBULA with the
appropriate URLs/links and a different CSS and banner.

Am I making any sense?