How To Create Multiple BLOGs for a Community Site's Members?

vincentrich · Post by **vincentrich** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 8:27 am

Hello everyone,

This is my first post here. I've seen various PHP blog scripts but I find this particular script the best I've seen so far.

Anyway, I was wondering if its possible to create a BLOG for every member of my web site?

Is there a plug in for it or do I have to customize it heavily? I am afraid if I have to customize it heavily, it would be very difficult to update to future versions of this script.

My dream is to create a blog service on my web site similar to LiveJournal.com whereby all members will have their own unique URL.

For my case it would be something like www.oasisfanatic/blog/myname/

That would be very cool! It would bring in a lot of traffic and hopefully push up my Search engine rankings at the same time.

houndbee · Post by **houndbee** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 6:30 pm

You can try the Shared Installation setup, but be warned that this is still very experimental and will get better and easier-to-use in future versions, currently recommended only to advanced users who have good knowledge of Apache virtual hosting setups.

Find the documentation here

vincentrich · Post by **vincentrich** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 2:35 pm

thanks! i can't install virtual subdomains on my web host but I could simply redirect them to a folder created with their usernames right? I'll test this out soon.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 2:39 pm

Hi!

Yes, you could use RewriteRules/Subdirectories instead.

The only thing which makes shared blogs hard to setup is that you need to create your own scripts/routines to create a new blog. The steps which need to be taken are documented, though. But because of the variety of different webserver-setups, we don't distribute a default script.

Regards,
Garvin.

Post by **jhermanns** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 12:38 pm

garvinhicking wrote:But because of the variety of different webserver-setups, we don't distribute a default script.

YET!

mrkrrtft · Post by **mrkrrtft** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 8:00 pm

So if I understand correctly currently Serendipity can't do multiple blogs like Moveable Type does at the moment? btw ... this isn't a dig I'm just trying to figure out how best to migrate my three blogs to Serendipity.

Thanks,

Post by **garvinhicking** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 9:15 am

Hi!

mrkrrtft wrote:So if I understand correctly currently Serendipity can't do multiple blogs like Moveable Type does at the moment? btw ... this isn't a dig I'm just trying to figure out how best to migrate my three blogs to Serendipity.

I don'T know movable Type and how it handles multiple blogs; but as written above, it is possible to create multiple blogs, but each with their own admin page; but sharing the same codebase.

HTH,
Garvin.

mrkrrtft · Post by **mrkrrtft** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 3:51 pm

garvinhicking wrote:
mrkrrtft wrote:So if I understand correctly currently Serendipity can't do multiple blogs like Moveable Type does at the moment? btw ... this isn't a dig I'm just trying to figure out how best to migrate my three blogs to Serendipity.
I don'T know movable Type and how it handles multiple blogs; but as written above, it is possible to create multiple blogs, but each with their own admin page; but sharing the same codebase.

Yeah it does help. I'll wipe my test database and try the shared installation. I'll let you know how it works out. By the way, I tried a couple of other blogware products yesterday and I kept coming back to Serendipity ... that's kind of cool since with MT I used to always go back to MT