Multiple blogs / Shared library

[Woody]

no much experience with serendipity! I need a blog system, wich allows me to set up multiple blogs. Thought Serendipity could do it, but cant find a way.
Am I missinterpreting "Shared library" and is the use of multiple parallel blogs not possible?
Thanks for help,
Woody

[garvinhicking]

That's right, you are misinterpreting the "Shared library". That is only there to install several blogs frmo the same codebase. But you still need to setup up your own new directory for each blog.

You could use /blog1, /blog2 and /blog3, but they would all be maintained on their own admin interface, with their own users - they only share a central codebase, but are completely individual.

What you can do is to make faked multi-blogs. Serendipity can turn each category of your blog into it's own "sub-blog", as you can assign templates per category, and make sidebar plugins only visible on certain categories. This should work in most cases, but it might not be exactly what you want? You need latest serendipity 0.9 for this to work, plus the plugin serendipity_event_categorytemplates and maybe serendipity_event_sidebarhider from our plugin repository.

But if you want to have more have the blogs more independently, the feature you're looking for is best solved in MoveableType. I can't recommend any PHP-based blog with multi-blog functionality, they all lack certain features.

Regards,
Garvin

[MySchizoBuddy]

But if you want to have more have the blogs more independently, the feature you're looking for is best solved in MoveableType. I can't recommend any PHP-based blog with multi-blog functionality, they all lack certain features.

not even b2evolution?

does s9y developers have any future plans of making s9 into a multi blog

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

not even b2evolution?

I disliked certain issues of b2evolution, mostly Plugins/Templating, so I PERSONALLY can't recommend it. But other people have other opinions.

does s9y developers have any future plans of making s9 into a multi blog

Our though on this is: If somebody wants to implement it, we willingly take it. None of our core developers however has this currently in his schedule, as many things can be solved via Category-Multiblogs. A full multi-blog feature would require many, many changes in the code and nearly all DB tables.

Regards,
Garvin

[Woody]

Thanks for your help, thoughts and advice. The multi category approach looks nice. My problem is, I want to have users seperated by logins per blog, I don't belive that this will work with the category setup. I'll try blog:CME. What do you think about it?

[garvinhicking]

Hm, I've never heard about blog:CME, sorry.

If you want seperate logins per blog, the "shared installation" idea might work out for you, as this keeps each blog on its own. But this has some administration overhead, I agree.

I'm very sorry that Serendipity cannot offer you much more alternatives in this regard. But maybe you want to try Serendipity despite of this, as it has other strenghts and many features that other systems lack.

Regards,
Garvin

[Siprum]

"You could use /blog1, /blog2 and /blog3, but they would all be maintained on their own admin interface, with their own users - they only share a central codebase, but are completely individual. " Garvin wrote


Does anyone know how we can go about installing Serendipity to have /blog1, /blog2, /blog3 etc and automate it such that when friends come to our bog site they can essentially setup their own blogs similar to what Garvin described? Thanks

[garvinhicking]

Siprum: Actually such a process is always very tightly bound to how your own webserver is setup. That's why we don't provide a script for that, since it would differ on nearly all systems.

However, automatted blog systems like those on http://www.s9y.org/61.html have all created tiny scripts, that to the signup quite easy. Maybe you can ask those people if they share their scripts with you. But with some basic PHP and server knowledge, it's all very easy.

All you have to do is calling the serendipity API functions for the installer process, create a new directory, create a new database, create the virtual host and you're set if using the serendpity shared installation.

Regards,
Garvin[/url]