Domains and Groups

Question

I'm hosting two FQDNs on the server, Domain1 and Domain2. I also have three groups as well.
If I go to www.domain1/groups, all thee groups appear, but one of them is a 404 link, while the other two groups are fine.
Conversely, if I go to www.domain2/group, all thee groups appear and the reverse is true.... two of them are 404 links and one works fine.
As life would have it, that's actually the way I want it to work.... but don't quite understand why.
Ultimately, I'd like people visiting from Domain2 to not even know that other groups exist, let alone be able to click in and look around.
Any ideas?

Answer 1

Hi,
You have one server hosting two virtual domains. The wikiServer builds a listing of all the groups your server is hosting. Depending on which domain a group is assigned to (Enabled services site) it will answer on a request to that domain and return 404 if not enabled on that domain.
I've used one approach to separation, which is to build a static listing page for only those groups on a specific domain say http://domainX/Welcome.html then edit the site conf file and add the following redirect:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^TRACE
RewriteRule .* - [F]
RewriteRule ^/groups\/$ "/Welcome.html" [R=301]
Which will refer all requests for a domainX/groups to your welcome page with the groups listing (you need to add the links to specific groups, e.g ../groups/groupZ).
This also self contains the wikis and blogs to use "Other Wikis" in the footer as a redirect to your welcome page.
Of course, this approach could be extended to as many virtual domains as you have groups for and separates domainX from domainY. What you lose is the dynamic updating of the group listing for more control on your part but doing it manually.
HTH,
Harry