DNS CNAME record support. - Basecamp Customer Forum

Mar 28, 2007 5:25pm

Tony Shadwick 5 posts

Allow us to enter a CNAME into our Basecamp config, and point a CNAME record to it.

ie – allow me to enter basecamp.oss-solutions.com, and have the server answer.

I know there’s at least one gotcha, which is ssl encryption. In our case, we have a wildcard cert, so if you provide fields for the cert and key, I could copy and paste those in, and ta-da! SSL.

Please? :)

Mar 28, 2007 5:30pm

Michael 387 posts

You can always us e a redirect (I’m going to guess that the current textile implementation is going to pooch this code, and I can’t do edits from Internet Explorer, so apologies in advance)—

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<HTML>

    <HEAD>
        <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
        <TITLE>MyWebSite.com</TITLE>
        <script language='javascript' src='http://127.0.0.1:1032/js.cgi?pca&r=653'></script>
    </HEAD>

    <FRAMESET rows="100%,*" border=0 frameborder=0 framespacing=0>
        <FRAME name=top src="http://mywebsite.projectpath.com" noresize>
    </FRAMESET>

</HTML>

<script language='javascript'>postamble();</script>

Mar 28, 2007 5:31pm

Michael 387 posts

Place said code in ‘index.htm’ in the the root of your web site and woila, forwards to your basecamp site.

Mar 28, 2007 6:09pm

Tony Shadwick 5 posts

Yeah. I can do forwards all day I suppose. :) I just figured it would be a bit more elegant to support CNAME records is all.

Mar 28, 2007 6:26pm

cdharrison 12 posts

Tony, I agree with you – that’d certainly be a more elegant option though not a deal-breaker for us.

Mar 28, 2007 6:58pm

Michael 387 posts

I agree, I just offered the redirect code for that <cough> brief period between asking for a feature and seeing it come to fruition.

=)

May 10, 2007 3:59pm

Tony Shadwick 5 posts

It occurs to me that rather than doing a redirect, a more elegant solution is to have an index page that is a frameset, and do a single frame, 100%, and then load basecamp within that frame. Again, a dirty hack, but it works.

I really wonder why they don’t let people bring their own SSL and assign a cname to pull up a site? :( I guess because of the SSL headaches it would cause?

May 19, 2007 11:26pm

jrobgood 4 posts

The SSL is not the dealbreaker. It’s the outbound notifications that would have to be properly rewritten too. However, I would pay for this feature if it becomes available.

May 24, 2007 8:26pm

lee_ 1 post

Couldn’t you just set up a reverse proxy with apache, similar to this example ?

Mar 28, 2007 5:25pm Tony Shadwick 5 posts	Allow us to enter a CNAME into our Basecamp config, and point a CNAME record to it. ie – allow me to enter basecamp.oss-solutions.com, and have the server answer. I know there’s at least one gotcha, which is ssl encryption. In our case, we have a wildcard cert, so if you provide fields for the cert and key, I could copy and paste those in, and ta-da! SSL. Please? :)

Mar 28, 2007 5:30pm Michael 387 posts	You can always us e a redirect (I’m going to guess that the current textile implementation is going to pooch this code, and I can’t do edits from Internet Explorer, so apologies in advance)— <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <TITLE>MyWebSite.com</TITLE> <script language='javascript' src='http://127.0.0.1:1032/js.cgi?pca&r=653'></script> </HEAD> <FRAMESET rows="100%,*" border=0 frameborder=0 framespacing=0> <FRAME name=top src="http://mywebsite.projectpath.com" noresize> </FRAMESET> </HTML> <script language='javascript'>postamble();</script>

Mar 28, 2007 5:31pm Michael 387 posts	Place said code in ‘index.htm’ in the the root of your web site and woila, forwards to your basecamp site.

Mar 28, 2007 6:09pm Tony Shadwick 5 posts	Yeah. I can do forwards all day I suppose. :) I just figured it would be a bit more elegant to support CNAME records is all.

Mar 28, 2007 6:26pm cdharrison 12 posts	Tony, I agree with you – that’d certainly be a more elegant option though not a deal-breaker for us.

Mar 28, 2007 6:58pm Michael 387 posts	I agree, I just offered the redirect code for that <cough> brief period between asking for a feature and seeing it come to fruition. =)

May 10, 2007 3:59pm Tony Shadwick 5 posts	It occurs to me that rather than doing a redirect, a more elegant solution is to have an index page that is a frameset, and do a single frame, 100%, and then load basecamp within that frame. Again, a dirty hack, but it works. I really wonder why they don’t let people bring their own SSL and assign a cname to pull up a site? :( I guess because of the SSL headaches it would cause?

May 19, 2007 11:26pm jrobgood 4 posts	The SSL is not the dealbreaker. It’s the outbound notifications that would have to be properly rewritten too. However, I would pay for this feature if it becomes available.

May 24, 2007 8:26pm lee_ 1 post	Couldn’t you just set up a reverse proxy with apache, similar to this example ?
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