just to make sure i dunerstood this. so to optimize ranking, when
soeone types in xxx.com it should be routed to www.xxx.com at the
level of the http server?

On Jun 2, 5:10 am, Chris Kottom <ch...@chriskottom.com> wrote:
> Yes, important point there.  The choice to host across multiple subdomains
> should be made for a reason, not by default.  If the subdomain is an
> essential part of the user's request (Google up "Basecamp style subdomains"
> if you're not sure what I mean by this) then it's possible that you'd want
> separate cookies for each subdomain.  In the vast majority of cases however,
> the application isn't inferring anything from the subdomain, and you're
> potentially losing PageRank.
>
> Making the configuration at the web server will help you with both problems,
> if it is in fact a problem to have more than one subdomain, whereas the
> Rails-only solution helps only with cookie management.
>
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:53 AM, ratnadeepdeshm...@gmail.com <
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> ratnadeepdeshm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > But overall redirection from non www to www or vice versa should be done at
> > least for "www" subdomain.. As google bot considers www and non www as two
> > different sites.
>
> > So go with Apache configs way if you want www and non www to be same.
>
> > And go with Rails cookies way, if you really have some subdomains like
> > app1.example.com and app2.example.com, where app1 and app2 are sharing the
> > session.
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> > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:18 AM, jiblethead <jibleth...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> > in config/initializers/session_store.rb
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> >> > MyApp::Application.config.session_store :cookie_store, :key =>
> >> > '_my_app_session', :domain => 'xxx.com'
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> >> the solution I've found to work consistently is to modify as above,
> >> but set :domain => '.xxx.com'
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> >> Having the leading period (.) will set a common cookie that is shared
> >> by all subdomains.  I use this technique to handle a secure subdomain
> >> vs. a www subdomain, without creating new sessions between the two.
>
> >> Kevin
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