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Aug 11, 2001, 10:13am

I have not been reading this newsgroup so often,so please excuse me if this
has been brought up before.As we now have 10 worlds and they are all running
on the same object path,but has a diffirent theme,I would hope activeworlds
would give the option to name the avatars.dat used.Just like the object path
now ,with its own field,if left blank it uses the the default path from
AW.One could have the "avatars.dat" to be downloaded as default,but there
should be an option to change it to for example "avatars1.dat" ,and it would
use a secondary avatars set-up in the world.

Count Dracula o

Aug 11, 2001, 1:11pm

At the moment the only solution for the object host is to use
separate dummy directories for your worlds, all containing
only the avatars folder and one file called .htaccess, where
the Apache rewrite engine is enabled for all other folders.

The really big disadvantage over the client sided solution that
you describe is, that the browsers will not see the redirected
directories and keep all worlds in separate cache folders.

But for those who are interested, here a brief description
of how it works (example) :


1. the common folders :

/obj/models/
/obj/textures/
/obj/sounds/
/obj/seqs/


2. The folder for world A :

/obja/avatars/ (including an avatars.dat file)


3. the file for world A : /obja/.htaccess that has to be uploaded
in text mode(!)

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /obja
RewriteRule ^(models\/.*)$ /obj/$1 [S=10]
RewriteRule ^(textures\/.*)$ /obj/$1 [S=10]
RewriteRule ^(sounds\/.*)$ /obj/$1 [S=10]
RewriteRule ^(seqs\/.*)$ /obj/$1 [S=10]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /obj/$1


4. The object path entry for World A :

www.host.dom/obja


It is not really a solution, it is just a weak workaround


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Aug 12, 2001, 5:03am

slightly improved version that requires nothing but 2
files on the individual object path :

http://oct31.de/aw/infos/MultipleAvatarsDat.txt

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Aug 12, 2001, 1:58pm

Thanx Ananas :-) I knew you was the one I should have asked in the first
place.Seems you have a solution on everything .

Dracula
ananas <vha at oct31.de> kirjoitti viestissä:3B762867.FE0EB826 at oct31.de...
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