pro_domain/gallery/ URL bumps to www.smugmug.com

jchin

With a Pro account, is it possible that when someone goes to (some_pro_domain)/gallery/ it bumps to their home page and not to www.smugmug.com ?

Andy

jchin wrote:

With a Pro account, is it possible that when someone goes to (some_pro_domain)/gallery/ it bumps to their home page and not to www.smugmug.com ?

Johnny, I'd love to help you but I don't have enough detail to do so with this question. Can you be much more specific? Thanks!

jchin

Andy wrote:

Johnny, I'd love to help you but I don't have enough detail to do so with this question. Can you be much more specific? Thanks!

Pretty much anyone's galleries ...

http://galleries.jchinphotography.com/gallery/
or
http://www.moonriverphotography.com/gallery/
and you'll end up at
http://www.smugmug.com/

This was bought to my attention when my friend visited one of my albums and then decided to just remove the last part of the URL, trying to "browse the directory".

I think it should have dumped him to http://galleries.jchinphotography.com/ instead of SmugMug's home page.

Andy

jchin wrote:

Pretty much anyone's galleries ...

http://galleries.jchinphotography.com/gallery/
or
http://www.moonriverphotography.com/gallery/
and you'll end up at
http://www.smugmug.com/

This was bought to my attention when my friend visited one of my albums and then decided to just remove the last part of the URL, trying to "browse the directory".

I think it should have dumped him to http://galleries.jchinphotography.com/ instead of SmugMug's home page.

OK thanks. The structure for CNAMEs doesn't allow for this, I'm sorry

jchin

Andy wrote:

OK thanks. The structure for CNAMEs doesn't allow for this, I'm sorry

Huh??? <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/headscratch.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >

What does CNAMEs have to do with HTML redirect code? Why can't the redirect code be simply a redirect to "/" instead of "http://www.smugmug.com&quot; ?

Something like this in HTML:

< META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="0; URL=/" >

Or in PHP:
[php]header("Location: /"); exit;[/php]

docwalker

ETA: this is not CNAME related as far as I can tell.

I am probably wrong but I thought that was done to prevent people from fishing back through the URL to find your other galleries that may or may not be hidden.

I know that http://galleries.jchinphotography.com/galleries does work.

But there is nothing at http://galleries.jchinphotography.com/gallery

I can ask the guys if it would be possible to put a redirect there back to the main page. I am not sure if this is by design but they will know.

cabbey

jchin wrote:

With a Pro account, is it possible that when someone goes to (some_pro_domain)/gallery/ it bumps to their home page and not to www.smugmug.com ?

Yes, this should be fixable, it should really behave the same as the 404 handler imho.

I'll log it as a bug, thanks for pointing it out to us.

docwalker

Haha...that was the one I was going to ask. Go Cabbey Go...

Andy

Thanks Cabbey & Doc! I learned a few things here.

jchin

Thanks guys! Once again, SmugMug's the best!

jfriend

cabbey wrote:

Yes, this should be fixable, it should really behave the same as the 404 handler imho.

I'll log it as a bug, thanks for pointing it out to us.

If you let http://xxxxx.com/gallery go to the user's own homepage just like any other name that isn't a category name, then users can redirect it to wherever they wanted with JS scripts like the vanity URL stuff. In other words, http://xxxxx.com/gallery should work just like http://xxxxx.com/foobar or any other word.

Is that what you mean by the 404 handler? Or were you proposing something different?

jchin

Hey guys ... maybe this can help ...

I noticed that if you goto http://galleries.jchinphotography.com/share (the base "directory" for ShareGroups) it redirects properly to the custom homepage.

I think the /gallery should do the same. If this helps you find and maybe use similar code.

cabbey

jfriend wrote:

In other words, http://xxxxx.com/gallery should work just like http://xxxxx.com/foobar or any other word.

Is that what you mean by the 404 handler?

yes.

/foobar is handled by the 404 handler.

/gallery is not, because it handles links like /gallery/12345_AbCdE/... but in this case, you're not giving it any data to go by, so it should do the same as the 404 handler and send you to /.

cabbey

jchin wrote:

Hey guys ... maybe this can help ...

I noticed that if you goto http://galleries.jchinphotography.com/share (the base "directory" for ShareGroups) it redirects properly to the custom homepage.

I think the /gallery should do the same. If this helps you find and maybe use similar code.

Yes, this behavior is why I classified this as a bug and not as a feature request. It's logged in our bug tracker and will get handled at some point. But at the moment we've got a bunch of other stuff we're doing... like electronic payments and packages and coupons and some even more awesome stuff I can't tell ya about. Some of our sorcerers grab random little bugs like this to fill in time around big things, so it could get fixed at any point... but it won't get forgotten now that it's in the tracker.

jfriend

cabbey wrote:

yes.

/foobar is handled by the 404 handler.

/gallery is not, because it handles links like /gallery/12345_AbCdE/... but in this case, you're not giving it any data to go by, so it should do the same as the 404 handler and send you to /.

Cool. Thanks.