Serendipity server

[grpprod]

Hello all,
first of all, sorry if this has been discussed before, it is my first post. I browsed the forum but couldn't find anything matching my case exactly, if there is something similar a link would be sufficient.

I administer a medium-sized organization. I intend to provide my users with the ability to create their own blogs. However I am not sure if Serendipity can support this. Each blog would be maintained only by its creator (ie no multiple diferrent-access-level users).

The reason I am posting this is to ask if the above deployment has to be done with SEPARATE MySQL databases. Also, it seems that one copy of the Serendipity root must exist for each user. Is there a way that a 'template' is created and copied easily every time a new user comes, or this has to be done in a manual way?

Although a little unethical, one more question. Even though s9y is great, if there is a more appropriate application for my case someone can suggest, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

This is possible and goes under the term "Shared Installaiton". You can search this forum and www.s9y.org for more links and details about that? And feel free to come back here for more specific questions, if you have any?

The reason I am posting this is to ask if the above deployment has to be done with SEPARATE MySQL databases. Also, it seems that one copy of the Serendipity root must exist for each user. Is there a way that a 'template' is created and copied easily every time a new user comes, or this has to be done in a manual way?

With shared installation, you can shortcut the s9y installation to only one filebase for all installations. But yes, you need a seperate mysql database for everyone. Or you could use a different prefix for all tables, and stay with a single database; but you'd still have 10 DB tables for each user.

Although a little unethical, one more question. Even though s9y is great, if there is a more appropriate application for my case someone can suggest, it would be greatly appreciated.

I think MoveableType offers multi-blogs more "out-of-the-box". But MT is Perl, and less easy to maintain. WordPress MU is far less sophisticated, so there currently is little to choose from...if you get to hear of a software that easily supports what you're doing, we would be interested in hearing that of course. Maybe it could also give us some ideas.

"True Multi-Blogs" is on our roadmap for the future, though. We could just need some more manpower to achieve it

Best regards and HTH,
Garvin

[garvinhicking]

(BTW: Have a look at www.s9y.org, "Hosting Providers". There are some providers that offer shared installation of s9y, like supersized or 1on.de)