configuring the shared installation multi user feature

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on windows xp. How do i do it?

I am trying to create a site similiar to supersized.org where multiple users can create blogs.

any help given would be greatly appreciated

[garvinhicking]

Basically you can use the same method as on Linux. Just look up our install documentation on the Wiki for shared install.

Regards,
Garvin

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thanks garvin for the reply.

While looking at the install documentation i must admit info such as
$ cp -r &
$ chmod -R

confused me. I do not know where to paste and edit that data.

i am attempting to create a name based multi user site like supersized.org.

I think if i had the php script that creates a database structure i would be on my way, bu ti still dont know where to put the shared install info on my phpdev server on my computer.

Any help would be appreicated

The only code needed which differs Supersized.org to the simple Serendipity checkout is a small PHP script which creates the database structure for users and links a virtual directory.

All information needed for that file can be found here: http://www.s9y.org/41.html - since this part is HEAVILY reliant on your server setup, we cannot bundle it, and you will surely not be able to use the supersized.org script on your server. However this script is maybe 20-30 lines of code.

If you are still interested in it, you could ask the maintainers of supersized.org or serendipia.net

Regards,
Garvin

[garvinhicking]

Okay. Basically using Windows you can drop all the chmod command references - they are used to assign privileges, and Windows doesn't offer this via commandline. If you're uising NTFS, you can assign proper privileges with right-clicking on the folders.

"cp -r" just means to recursively copy files to a directory with all subdirectories. You can do that with the explorer or the 'copy' command line directive.

Creating links with "ln" is not possible using Windows, I think. Thus you need to copy over the files that are linked in our HowTo time and again on each upgrade. Or maybe this can be done with some other mean using Windows...?!

Regards,
Garvin