Subdomain and Uploadify not working

Question

I have wildcard subdomains for example:

.example.com goes to example.com/app/

It seems uploadify works fine if I use the directory instead of the subdomain. But when I use the subdoman and click on the upload image nothing happens. It seems to load the flash fine and no JS errors but when I click on the button I do not get a file browser. Maybe the way I do the wildcard domains affects it, not sure. here is my htaccess:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*).example.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/app/%1/$1 [P]

I also use the full path to call the js and flash files. They are not located under the subdomain but under the root domain. So I just use the full url path, here is an example of my js:

$("#fileInput").uploadify({
      'uploader'       : 'http://example.com/js/upload/_scripts/uploadify.swf',
      'script'         : 'http://sub.example.com/discuss/upload/do_upload/' + session_id,
      'cancelImg'      : 'http://example.com/images/icons/del.png',
      'folder'         : '/files/',
      'multi'          : true,
                'auto' : true,
                'queueSizeLimit' : 10,
                'buttonImg' : 'http://example.com/images/attachafile2.jpg',
                'width' : 91,
                'height' : 23,
                'wmode' : 'transparent'
   });

It's possible you're hitting a cross-domain violation in JavaScript by trying to access your sub-domain. Not sure on this though. — Nathan Taylor
Im not really sure. I tried to find the bottleneck by seeing if I could break it in the directory version but no go. — mikelbring

jimbo jimbo · Accepted Answer · 2010-05-17T20:45:02

uploadify uses flash to perform the upload. Flash is subject to the same origin policy, much like a native browser, except that it has a loophole.

Flash will look for a file called crossdomain.xml at the root of the webserver. This XML file dictates which other domains may access its contents via flash.

For example, here is twitter's crossdomain file

It may be sufficient in your case to create or modify this file to accept connections from the various domains involved.

Good luck!

Subdomain and Uploadify not working

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