Forum OpenACS Q&A: Subsites, Host-Node Map, and Context Bar

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1: Subsites, Host-Node Map, and Context Bar
Posted by James Thornton on 03/25/04 07:16 AM
I am developing a 5.0.4 site/application that will use subsites to virtually host similar type sites via one code base and database. This is the first time I have worked much with subsites in awhile.

For a subsite mounted at domain.com/subsite and virtualdomain.com mapped to domain.com/subsite, why aren't the paths in the context bar rooted at /subsite? For example, when you are at http://virtualdomain.com/, all paths appear as virtualdomain.com/subsite instead of virtualdomain.com/.

Why is the context bar in the form of:

  Main Site -> Subsite -> Page

...instead of...

  Subsite -> Page

Were these design decisions? Are there parameters somewhere that modify this behavior?

Thanks.

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2: Re: Subsites, Host-Node Map, and Context Bar (response to 1)
Posted by Barry Books on 03/25/04 11:36 AM
I do exactly the same thing but some of my subsites have nothing to do with each other. The context-bar is set in www/default-master.tcl. if you add something like 
if { [template::util::is_nil context_bar] } { 
        if { [ad_conn package_key] eq "acs-subsite"  } {
                set subsite_node_id [ad_conn node_id]
        } else {
                set subsite_obj_id [site_node::closest_ancestor_package -node_id [ad_conn node_id]]
                set subsite_node_id [site_node::get_node_id_from_object_id -object_id $subsite_obj_id]
        }
    set context_bar [ad_context_bar -from_node $subsite_node_id ]
}
in place of just setting the context bar it will probably do what you want.
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3: Re: Subsites, Host-Node Map, and Context Bar (response to 1)
Posted by Jade Rubick on 03/25/04 08:19 PM
It would be nice to be able to set this per subsite, as a parameter. Anyone willing to take this on?