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https://github.com/dunglas/Elgg-profile_friendlyurl

Creates friendly URLs for user's Elgg profiles as subdomains.
https://github.com/dunglas/Elgg-profile_friendlyurl

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Creates friendly URLs for user's Elgg profiles as subdomains.

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Profile Friendly URL
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*Kévin Dunglas - http://dunglas.fr - 2010 - GPL v2*

Creates friendly URLs for user's profiles as subdomains.
Ie: http://example.com/pg/profile/user will become http://user.example.com

Requirements
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* Access to the configuration of your DNS server
* The Apache web server (either, you need to port the rewriting rules from the .htaccess file to the syntax supported by your web server)
* PHP installed as module (as CGI, or with some restricting Apache configurations, you need to set the `session.cookie_domain` param of the `php.ini` file to something like ".yourdomain.com")

Install
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1. Add a wildcard entry to your DNS server. Every should point to the web server hosting the Elgg application.
You can add a Bind entry like: *.example.com. 3600 IN CNAME 10 www.example.com.
2. If you are using Apache virtual hosts, add every subdomains to the Elgg vhost like this:

ServerName example.com
ServerAlias *.punxrezo.net
[...]

3. Backup then replace the .htaccess file in the your root Elgg directory by the htaccess-dist file of the plugin directory.
Edit this new .htaccess file and replace all occurrences of "example.com" by something like "yourdomain.com".
4. Enable the profile_friendlyurl plugin from the Elgg administration.
5. In the plugin settings form set the domain name to use.