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DNN Sub Portal User Authentication

Last post 09-11-2004, 10:30 PM by jloyola. 7 replies.


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08-17-2004, 1:09 PM 1523

jloyola
Joined on 08-16-2004
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DNN Sub Portal User Authentication

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Hi.

I have sub portals with differents users in that portals. I configured Chat OK and anonimous users chat Ok too. But when a User log in to the sub-portal Chat sends a message: "Can't find account information".

Is there any restriction to users form sub-portals domain?

Thanks

Juan

08-17-2004, 1:19 PM 1524 in reply to 1523

Adam
Joined on 09-23-2003
Aurora, ON
Posts 18,678

Re: DNN Sub Portal User Authentication

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Juan,

We don't have any restriction to the sub-portals domain.

Which version of dotnetnuke are you using?

Have you got it works with your main site?

When you talk about the subportal? Do you mean the following structure?

abc.com

abc.com/portal1

abc.com/portal2

abc.com

domain1.abc.com

domain2.abc.com

Keep me posted.

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08-17-2004, 2:44 PM 1529 in reply to 1524

jloyola
Joined on 08-16-2004
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Re: DNN Sub Portal User Authentication

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Hi.

The portal structure is:

www.idh.org.mx

and subportal

www.idh.org.mx/juventud

I registered an user for the subportal and log in with that user. When I tried to Chat I received "Login failed. Can't find account information".

Then I registered the same user in the portal and log in with that user in the suportal (user already created) and the Chat worked OK, using the account information.

I use DNN 2.1.2 and I know every portal or subportal have a diferent ID in the database. I think you use the domain name to get the portal ID to find users.

Thanks.

Juan

08-18-2004, 9:23 AM 1545 in reply to 1529

cutechat
Joined on 07-22-2004
Posts 2,332

Re: DNN Sub Portal User Authentication

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Hi Juan :

Maybe the problem is that in the older version , the CuteChat cache the account list for performance , for 10 minutes .

So if a user registered , the CuteChat wound know him immediately.

We have changed that to 10 seconds in the newest version . We are planning upload it these days .

Regards, Terry .

08-18-2004, 10:18 AM 1546 in reply to 1545

jloyola
Joined on 08-16-2004
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Re: DNN Sub Portal User Authentication

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Thanks.

I don't know if you understand me, sorry for my English. The thing is that users in the portal www.domain.com are different from the users registered in subdomain www.domain.com/subdomain. So when a registered user Log in to the subdomain Cutechat can't find him. If the same user also register for domain portal and log in to the subdomain, CuteChat find him now. We need to have diferent users in subdomain because they are isolated for educational purposes.

I don't know if CuteChat search for users with the domain portal ID, in that case the subdomain have a diferent portal ID, or search for users in the whole database.

Thanks.

I don't know how many hours we have in diference, here now is 10:20AM (Atlantic Time USA, Santiago Chile).

08-18-2004, 11:20 AM 1548 in reply to 1546

Adam
Joined on 09-23-2003
Aurora, ON
Posts 18,678

Re: DNN Sub Portal User Authentication

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jloyola,

Sorry for the late response. We are working/testing this issue since last night. It's 11:13am (Eastern time ). We are from Ontatio, Canada.

For the dotnetnuke sub portal problem , I think it's a bug of DotNetNuke.

In global.asax.vb , It's auto singout if portalid not found .

I commented this code , and the cutechat run OK now in sub portal :

'If _portalSettings.PortalId <> Int32.Parse(PortalCookie.UserData) Then

' ' expire cookies if portal has changed

' Response.Cookies("portalid").Value = Nothing

' Response.Cookies("portalid").Path = "/"

' Response.Cookies("portalid").Expires = DateTime.Now.AddYears(-30)

' Response.Cookies("portalroles").Value = Nothing

' Response.Cookies("portalroles").Path = "/"

' Response.Cookies("portalroles").Expires = DateTime.Now.AddYears(-30)

' ' check if user is valid for new portal

' Dim objUsers As New UserController

' Dim objUser As UserInfo = objUsers.GetUser(_portalSettings.PortalId, Int32.Parse(Context.User.Identity.Name))

' If objUser Is Nothing Then

' ' log user out

' FormsAuthentication.SignOut()

' ' Redirect browser back to home page

' Response.Redirect(Request.RawUrl, True)

' Exit Sub

' End If

'End If

and:

'' Log User Off from Cookie Authentication System

'FormsAuthentication.SignOut()

'' expire cookies

'Response.Cookies("portalid").Value = Nothing

'Response.Cookies("portalid").Path = "/"

'Response.Cookies("portalid").Expires = DateTime.Now.AddYears(-30)

'Response.Cookies("portalroles").Value = Nothing

'Response.Cookies("portalroles").Path = "/"

'Response.Cookies("portalroles").Expires = DateTime.Now.AddYears(-30)

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But , I don't know what the impact is if that codes are commented!

We are still investigating the problem and hope we can find a solution soon.

08-18-2004, 11:49 AM 1549 in reply to 1548

Adam
Joined on 09-23-2003
Aurora, ON
Posts 18,678

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jloyola,

Terry found a soluton and we made the test and it works.

I highlighted the code we added as followings:

'If the url contain the CuteChat, we don't want to dotnetnuke do the sighout.

If Request.Path.ToLower().IndexOf("/cutechat/") = -1 Then

' expire cookies if portal has changed

Response.Cookies("portalid").Value = Nothing

Response.Cookies("portalid").Path = "/"

Response.Cookies("portalid").Expires = DateTime.Now.AddYears(-30)

Response.Cookies("portalroles").Value = Nothing

Response.Cookies("portalroles").Path = "/"

Response.Cookies("portalroles").Expires = DateTime.Now.AddYears(-30)

' check if user is valid for new portal

Dim objUsers As New UserController

Dim objUser As UserInfo = objUsers.GetUser(_portalSettings.PortalId, Int32.Parse(Context.User.Identity.Name))

If objUser Is Nothing Then

' log user out

FormsAuthentication.SignOut()

' Redirect browser back to home page

Response.Redirect(Request.RawUrl, True)

Exit Sub

End If

and:

'If the url contain the CuteChat, we don't want to dotnetnuke do the sighout.

If Request.Path.ToLower().IndexOf("/cutechat/") = -1 Then

' Log User Off from Cookie Authentication System

FormsAuthentication.SignOut()

' expire cookies

Response.Cookies("portalid").Value = Nothing

Response.Cookies("portalid").Path = "/"

Response.Cookies("portalid").Expires = DateTime.Now.AddYears(-30)

Response.Cookies("portalroles").Value = Nothing

Response.Cookies("portalroles").Path = "/"

Response.Cookies("portalroles").Expires = DateTime.Now.AddYears(-30)

End If

Please give it try and keep us posted.

09-11-2004, 10:30 PM 1779 in reply to 1549

jloyola
Joined on 08-16-2004
Posts 4

Re: DNN Sub Portal User Authentication

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It works, thanks.

We are evaluating your chat sw. We had a meeting chat last week with 30 users and worked ok. We have different subportals for different class ranges. In every portal I created a chat room but when we "select room" the list shows all room created in all portals. If a student is registered for a subportal but is not registered in other subportal he can enter any room.

I think the room list must show only the rooms created in that portal so the users in that portal could enter those rooms only.

Thanks.

Juan