URL Address & Admin folder

Have a question regarding config items in the header file

1. $site['url']               = "http://sub.domain.com/";

- How does this affect the user experience within the browser, is this the reason I have to use forwarding with masking to force the URL address bar to display my registered domain? I've been trying my domain directs to the public server, but the registered.domain.com changes to sub.domain.com in the address bar.

- Do I need to unlicense, relicense with the registered.domain.com name?

$admin_dir                 = "administration";
- For added security, can I move the .../dolphin/administration directory to another location, and then modify this line in the configuration file? Would I have to do anything else to configure the administration application so that it knows where to find the base Dolphin platform?

As always, thanks for assistance.

Bump

Someone help please. Not sure what else to do, my domain always replaced with the sub.domain.com of the host server provider is this embedded in Dolphin someplace?

I don't get what you are trying to do. Are you making your dolphin site a sub domain of your main domain? If so it sounds life you don't have your server(DNS) pointed to the right folder.

As for the Admin part. You should be able to rename that folder and whatever you rename it to. Put there. You might have problems with the 3 party add-on modules if there using links to the default folder. You can always try and if you come across errors then put it back the way it was.

Let me try to explain the URL issue again, for now the Admin thing is not major, I'm already filtering IP's for that, but just wanted another security layer. Us CISSP's think that way. :-)

Here's my DNS/URL problem. I will create some fake domains/IP's.

My registered domain: likealot.com

likealot.com DNS Zone Record:

Public IP: 193.123.16.24 goes to sub.domain.com -> which is the DNS name for the server hosting dolphin.

My DNS register:

A Host Record                Points to

likealot.com                    193.123.16.24

C Name Host Record

www.likealot.com            likealot.com

Simple as pie could ever be. So, now if you enter www.likealot.com in the address bar of your browser, it will redirect to 193.123.16.24, load the website, and all is good. Right?

Wrong. What happens is the URL displayed to the end user is sub.domain.com.

Poking around I find sub.domain.com in the Dolphin config file so wondering if that's what's making it revert back because that's the domain it's licensed to. If I unbind the license, now that the domain name is pointing to the server, and then re-license with the domain name will that resolve properly and show the end user the correct domain? I bought the license before I had my domain intact because it's a DEV/QA environment.

This is what's in the header file which made me wonder if this is causing the problem.

This is the line in the header file, which I think is config file for Dolphin, which may be causing my problem. I tried changing host name on servers, et al....... nothing seems to resolve the issue except forwarding with masking and that's not the right way to do it because the URL address never changes to anything but whatever you mask it to. ie - www.likealot.com/<will shows nothing after this point> so can't troubleshoot if you don't know folder, file, et al.......

1. $site['url']               = "http://sub.domain.com/";

Correct.

You need to make sure This.

$site['url']               = "http://sub.domain.com/";

Make sure it Is set to the actual URL you want dolphin to use. Dolphin redirects to that set url so it is not responding to every url the site can respond to.

You know what. I went ahead made a copy and changed it, was coming back now to update post. Now it's work, I'll reapply license now.

Wow..... this one had me stumped for weeks. Thanks, for help deano.

I feel good knowing I'm actually learing something and not just hacking around. Now if I can figure out the next 20+ items bugging me. Hahaha........

If you know anything about the map module, I'd be very happy. Haha..... Thumbs up man. Thanks again. So, pleased now. Didn't want to change my whole environment thinking it was vendor related.