Hello,
I registered in a site called basecamp. After I registered, they
gave me a url like http://xxx.basecamp.com where i have to log in access
my project management. I heard that basecamp is built in ruby on rails.
I couldn’t get the point of building a subdomain like url. Can anyone
give some guidance of how to create a sub domain like url using rails?
Thanks in advance
You can use subdomains for various purposes. One is to host different
servers (eg mail.example.com and www.example.com), or to host
different applications (eg [email protected] and [email protected]).
I believe Basecamp use it to have nicer URLs. The standard way would
be:
//www.example.com/~rockroll/…, or
//www.example.com/…?user_id=123456
//rockroll.example.com/… looks nicer.
A few links:
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToUseSubdomainsAsAccountKeys
Christian