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In vBoptions, I think I have .www.domain.com as cookie domain, instead of .domain.com, so cookies are not set to my subdomains. You also need to clear cookie cache in browser to verify its working correctly.

I thought vb became finicky about loading avatars, attachments and stuff to a subdomain?

I'd like to recreate your success if you can outline some of the steps in detail )

Only if you use replacement varaiables. I hard-edited my code to only change DISPLAY paths. put (upload) paths for avatars, etc are still real main .com paths.

ie,

from my notes:

Code:

Avatars moved.
class_postbit.php
line 635
//$this->post['avatarurl'] = $this->registry->options['avatarurl'] . '/avatar' . $this->post['userid'] . '_' . $this->post['avatarrevision'] . '.gif';

// org code above.  moving to subdomain:
$this->post['avatarurl'] = 'http://avatars.MYDOMAIN.com' . '/avatar' . $this->post['userid'] . '_' . $this->post['avatarrevision'] . '.gif';

I hard edited the class file to include the path in postbit to my subdomain for them

As I dont use CDN, the sub-domains points to the same files as the original domain. So very easy, most paths were changed at StyleVar paths, only changed a few templates for javascript files.

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

Only if you use replacement varaiables. I hard-edited my code to only change DISPLAY paths. put (upload) paths for avatars, etc are still real main .com paths.

ie,

from my notes:

Code:

Avatars moved.
class_postbit.php
line 635
//$this->post['avatarurl'] = $this->registry->options['avatarurl'] . '/avatar' . $this->post['userid'] . '_' . $this->post['avatarrevision'] . '.gif';

// org code above.  moving to subdomain:
$this->post['avatarurl'] = 'http://avatars.MYDOMAIN.com' . '/avatar' . $this->post['userid'] . '_' . $this->post['avatarrevision'] . '.gif';

I hard edited the class file to include the path in postbit to my subdomain for them

I just added a plugin to do it on mine:
postbit_display_complete

Code:

 $post['avatarurl'] = "http://cdn.domain.com/" . $post['avatarurl'];

Yup, that works too. But, the plugin actually adds load to process. It's more efficient to hard code it in, althought for upgrades its a pain. (but, i'm not upgrading )

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

Yup, that works too. But, the plugin actually adds load to process. It's more efficient to hard code it in, althought for upgrades its a pain. (but, i'm not upgrading )

Agreed and additionally if you want to use avatars globally in vb , Brian's method will work better. And as most of us will going to stick with vB 3.8 , editing files should not be a problem from now on imo

As for avatars, its only one template edit to hard code it. Cant remember the name now, threadbit, postbit or whatever it was.

I am just curious why some of you guys still running vb3 instead of vb4? I delayed my upgrade 7 months myself, but the current version is not bad. vb4 also look a lot more modern IMHO.

class_postbit is where the edit is located in vb3 source code. It is hard-coded in the template and can't be changed there on vb3.

I haven't upgraded because going to vb4 is a huge effort of time i don't have.
the skin, finiding my addons if they even exists, etc etc, all the end up with the exact same thing my members have now that works fine. It's not worth the effort. If i had a use for a cms, that may be a different scenario. Right now, I'm not sold on it, and it's a ton of work to even bother with it, so i'm not bothering with it