[DUG] Multi client website

[Stefan Mueller]

Couple of thoughts:

 

·        Don’t use Delphi for that, use ASP.Net MVC ... if you do web then
using a proper web development tool makes things a lot easier. Delphi
IntraWeb is probably ok if you need to cobble together a simple page and
only know Delphi .. but other than that it’s a dead-end. The ASP.Net
community is thriving with new exciting development and support available
there. I am very fond of ASP.Net MVC, it does a lot of things right and is
easy to learn coming from Delphi.

·        ASP.Net MVC routing & controllers architecture lets you seamlessly
merge custom client pages with your “common” pages. You also get a lot of
security already out of the box with that framework and handled for you
(mentioning Cross-site scripting & Cross-site request forgery here) as well
as client side forms validations. 

·        DNS supports wildcard matching for a non-existing domain .. you can
create a DNS record like “*.mydomain.co.nz” to point all to the same
endpoint

·        On that endpoint you then can check the name of the domain
requested and use that one to point to the right locations for your
css/images (could even check if any for those customized files exists and if
not serve your default files).  

·        Cookies are a client side thing, what you really need is a server
side solution to know what content to serve. Cookies can’t handle things
such as website users that link to a common page first without having
visited the client page first 
 and obviously website users wanting to watch
2 different of your clients websites also wouldn’t work because a cookie can
only point to one client at a time 
 and then there are users (including
google/bing/yahoo-bots that index your pages) that have cookies disabled.

 

 

Kind regards,



Stefan Müller,
R&D Manager

ORCL Toolbox Ltd. 
Auckland, New Zealand 


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From: delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz
[mailto:delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz] On Behalf Of John C
Sent: Sunday, 31 July 2016 1:42 p.m.
To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
Subject: [DUG] Multi client website

 

Hi all

 

I have a website what will be available to the public but specific for more
than one clients. The frame work of the website will be the same for each
client but their images and CSS file will be different (making it look
differently).

The plan is to have a sub-domain for each client from where it will jump to
the "common" pages on the main domain. The index file on each sub.domain
identifies the client and therefore define the directory path to use for the
images and the CSS file.

I was thinking of doing this with cookies for the paths to be used in the
main program, but I'm not sure it would be a good plan and if that will work
properly (setting a cookie from within a sub.domain to be used in the main
domain).

 

Any ideas or suggestions of how to do this?

 

Thanks a lot in advance

John C

 

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