Overview: Typically (from my experience, which means I could very well be missing something), an SE site is accessed for signin and/or signup via one of the following:
Since I'm still in development (not for much longer thank goodness), my current development setup is as follows:
Goal: As I move toward Production, I want to combine my 'traditional' site and SE site into the same folder located at mydomain (beneath this there will still be backup/subfolders for development, staging, testing, different versions, etc.). Primary reasons for this:
Since obviously only 1 'site' can be loaded at any given URL, my understanding is that the SE LP won't be accessible since I'm using my Front-End instead (which is fine with me as there's nothing needed from the LP anyway, and anything I can do there I can do on a login page due to the phenomenal SpectroMedia Theme I'm using). Although my host informs me this is possible, I want to see what others are doing. I will use the same server(s) for the Front-end site as the SE Site, but will eventually split development into a separate sub-domain (so that I may switch it to another server(s) if/when needed) such as dev.mydomain.
Question#01: How do you as an ADMIN handle your Production/Live site:
(sure wish we had surveys
Looking forward to your input and suggestions.
I use my main domain for my site as it's better for SEO (I've been told).
My demo is on a subdomain for my developer (expert) account (completely different site as it's a different SE License).
My development sites are all on local installs.
Be careful what you install as we allow one live main site and one development site (same domain but a subdomain is allowed to be used for that one development site) per license. Any more would require purchasing more licenses.
==>"I use my main domain for my site as it's better for SEO (I've been told)."
So you use an SE LP as your 'front-end' to your site?
What do you mean LP if you mean something other than Landing Page?
Yes, I use SE for my author site. It is in the main public_html folder and I use a standard site setup. Nothing changed for the landing page other than some widgets and added a banner.
==>"What do you mean LP if you mean something other than Landing Page? "
I believe you addressed this in the rest of your reply.
This might be semantics - I was trying to differentiate between a traditional site 'home' page and SE naming it 'LP' (I supposed for many the terms Home and Landing Page may be interchangeable, but to me they often refer to different things - my bad I guess). My goal is to have my 'home' page (traditional website) load instead of SE's LP, and simply access various signin/signup fuctions via Links or URLs.
Oh ok similar to my ScriptTechs (which will change to an SE site as soon as I can figure out my articles section as I couldn't find an articles plugin without a "core"). That site has a main site as the main landing and then a separate forum, kb, etc. I think you mean similar to that. The issue is, the SEO is not as good with that set up.
Donna said:
Oh ok similar to my ScriptTechs (which will change to an SE site as soon as I can figure out my articles section as I couldn't find an articles plugin without a "core"). That site has a main site as the main landing and then a separate forum, kb, etc. I think you mean similar to that. The issue is, the SEO is not as good with that set up.
So right now your domain/URL loads a 'traditional' website Front-End, not the SE LP, but you are changing that soon so that your domain/URL will load the SE LP?
Is anyone doing something like the following in their main domain:
I'm told this should work, but I don't know this from someone actually doing it. I especially don't know when logging out if it functions normally (since usually the SE LP loads at this point, but I've edited Core to load my regular site).
I hope I'm making sense.
You totally are making sense. If you do this method, be careful of .htaccess giving you a 500 internal server error. Social Engine is selfish and will not allow any other script to run on the same domain level so it requires total isolation on a per directory basis. I've found it's impossible to achieve alternative landing pages, even custom built ones. I've tried.