[horde] Check on Horde prefs.d/prefs-servername.php Implementation & capability

[Andy Dorman]

On 05/23/2013 06:36 AM, Jan Schneider wrote:
>
> Zitat von Andy Dorman <adorman at ironicdesign.com>:
>
>> This query is about Horde 5.04 (the latest debian package release)
>>
>> We are trying to set different default theme for different domains
>> BEFORE someone logs in.
>>
>> Our horde - conf.php has vhosts enabled.
>> $conf['vhosts'] = true;
>>
>> We have set up additional themes as described in
>> http://wiki.horde.org/Doc/Dev/ThemesH5. For this example the theme
>> directories are named "bulldogs-ABC/", "bulldogs-XYZ/", and
>> "bulldogs-default/"
>>
>> We finally added prefs-servername.php entries for the base servername
>> and a couple of specific server hostnames that look like these:
>>
>> prefs-abc.bulldogs.com.php
>> ----------------------------
>> <?php
>>
>> // default theme for abc.bulldogs.com
>> $_prefs['theme']['value'] = 'bulldogs-ABC';
>>
>> prefs-xyz.bulldogs.com.php
>> ----------------------------
>> <?php
>>
>> // default theme for xyz.bulldogs.com
>> $_prefs['theme']['value'] = 'bulldogs-XYZ';
>>
>> prefs-bulldogs.com.php
>> ----------------------------
>> <?php
>>
>> // default theme for bulldogs.com
>> $_prefs['theme']['value'] = 'bulldogs-default';
>>
>>
>> In testing we have found the results to be hit-or-miss. We do not see
>> the Horde default theme when calling these different servernames, but
>> rarely do we see the correct servername theme either. I suspect
>> caching is the cause of our inconsistent results, we are still
>> checking that.
>>
>> I just wanted to confirm a couple of things and make sure we are doing
>> this correctly...
>>
>> 1. Default servername themes WILL work BEFORE login.
>
> They should.
>
>> 2. You can specify hostnames to as many levels as necessary in the
>> prefs.d filenames, ie, both prefs-beta.abc.bulldogs.com.php, or simply
>> prefs-bulldogs.com.php will work.
>
> Yes, as long as it matches exactly the host name that the browser is
> sending. The vhost-specific files shouldn't go into the prefs.d/
> directory though, but right into config/.
>
>> Out of curiosity, does anyone know what will happen if we have defined
>> a theme in prefs-bulldogs.com and someone requests www.bulldogs.com ?
>> Will we get a basic match on the tld and get the bulldogs.com theme?
>> Of course we can set up Apache/Nginx to redirect www requests, just
>> wondering if we need to.
>
> No, they would just get the default theme.

Thank you Jan.  Your reply was very helpful.

I had to turn off PHP apc to test it, but config/prefs-servername.php 
works very nicely BEFORE login with apc disabled.  I expect we can 
enable apc when we go to production.

Regards,

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