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Hello.
Our community bumped into a stupid issue. We run an independent discourse instance to federate users from different academic institutions working in the same field. One of those stuffy institutions has decided to block access to our site from their network. Why, you ask? Most probably because their system doesn't like our fancy TLD name or so. Emails still go through, funnily.
I'm an optimist. So I think that this roadblock will eventually be cleared (after all, we're dealing with bureaucrats here), but experience tells me it might take an eternity. In the meantime, I've come up with a brilliant plan to keep things running smoothly for everyone.
For now, I try out to change the forum to a more conventional domain name and redirect the nice URL to the boring one. But ideally, what I really want is for the entire Discourse app to be mirrored – identical twins, if you will – each living under a separate domain name. That way, users from Snore Institution can stick to the boring URL while the rest of us enjoy the platform under its original identity. Is this possible by any chance ? Maybe by sharing the same storage volume with two different apps ?
Thanks for you help !
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Hello.
Our community bumped into a stupid issue. We run an independent discourse instance to federate users from different academic institutions working in the same field. One of those stuffy institutions has decided to block access to our site from their network. Why, you ask? Most probably because their system doesn't like our fancy TLD name or so. Emails still go through, funnily.
I'm an optimist. So I think that this roadblock will eventually be cleared (after all, we're dealing with bureaucrats here), but experience tells me it might take an eternity. In the meantime, I've come up with a brilliant plan to keep things running smoothly for everyone.
For now, I try out to change the forum to a more conventional domain name and redirect the nice URL to the boring one. But ideally, what I really want is for the entire Discourse app to be mirrored – identical twins, if you will – each living under a separate domain name. That way, users from Snore Institution can stick to the boring URL while the rest of us enjoy the platform under its original identity. Is this possible by any chance ? Maybe by sharing the same storage volume with two different apps ?
Thanks for you help !
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@robi said in mirror application: one app, two domains:
@mononym just add an alias to the app, so you can get to the same app from multiple domains.
Good idea, but it doesn't look like the Discourse app has aliases enabled
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G girish moved this topic from Support on
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Seems impossible
https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-use-multiple-hostnames/136306
Maybe it would be nice to show this in the App Store, like with badges or something... We chose Discourse over NodeBB for no apparent reason. Maybe it would have made a difference.
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