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[lord55]

hello to everyone!!!
i'm new on this site...
yestarday i found serendipity and today i can say it's the best blog system!!!
wordpress is only famous and most popular but it isn't the best one...

so congratulation to team for great work in serendipity!


only one thing:
i'm searching for a multi-blog system. i find serendipity perfect for multi-user.
i read here many posts about another feature "multi-blog" and i see some site powered by serendipity with multi-blob system for users but i find nothing about it.

i ask to team :
what about this feature and if there is someone that can help me to build this feature!!! or if there is a surprise in new realease about it !

maybe i think if Can serendipity emulate Movable Type Community Solution feature set? or create a best one!!!!!!

thanks in advance ...and congratulation for serendipity.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Great you like Serendipity.

As for multi-blogs: Serendipity does not support this "built-in". There is the concept of a "shared installation" that you can read more about in the s9y.org FAQ. But essentially this requires some knowledge of the Webserver because you have to create some PEAR-like installation stubs. For many people, this is a bit too complicated.

Some other sort of multi-blogs can be covered through creating multiple categories on your blog and giving each category a distinct template through the event plugin "Extended options/templates for categories".

maybe i think if Can serendipity emulate Movable Type Community Solution feature set? or create a best one!!!!!!

Yes, MT has a great multi-blog concept. Sadly it's very complicated and would requires many weeks of coding which no one has yet volunteered for. A feature like this has been on our TODO-List for a long while now, but we need developers to implement it.

Best regards,
Garvin

[lord55]

thanks for reply....

i see this site http://blog.doccheck.com/
it says in this forum it is powered by serendipity (but no logo on it )...
i'm hoping by a developer but as you say, it isn't.

A feature like this has been on our TODO-List for a long while now, but we need developers to implement it.

i'm not a good coder...but what about this script (from MT) as base to build in fast time a serendipity Database for multiblogs for users :

http://www.weeatbricks.com/2007/08/29/47/

and if there is a possibility to take this script and hack serendipity to create multiblogs in simple way ????

my english is better than QUEEN so i hope you understand me!



i give now a look to Shared installation...i hope to understand all!!!!

thanks in advance

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Doccheck has made heave custom modifications to Serendipity. They are surely running a customized version of the Shared Installation I referred to.

Serendipity can do that, it is highly customizable - but you need developer skills for that of course.

i'm not a good coder...but what about this script (from MT) as base to build in fast time a serendipity Database for multiblogs for users :

http://www.weeatbricks.com/2007/08/29/47/

Sorry, this is completely unrelated and highly MT-Specific. It cannot be applied to s9y at all.

S9y has something similar, called the Shared Installation. Read it up on the s9y.org site, but as mentioned: You need to have some server knowledge.

Best regards,
garvin

[lord55]

about Shared Installation:

i can create virtual host and i can Create symlink to dir

Code: Select all

"/usr/local/lib/php/s9y/deployment/" [core redirection files]
"/usr/local/lib/php/s9y/templates/" [templates so that users can change them]
"/usr/local/lib/php/s9y/htmlarea/" [htmlarea WYSIWYG-editor]

so until here i'm ok:

<VirtualHost 42.42.42.42:80>
ServerName garvin.s9yblogs.org
DocumentRoot /home/www/garvin.s9yblogs.org/htdocs
<Directory "/home/www/garvin.s9yblogs.org/htdocs">
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

but for:

php_value include_path ".:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php/s9y/:/usr/local/lib/php/s9y/bundled-libs/"
php_admin_value open_basedir "/usr/local/lib/php/:/usr/local/lib/php/s9y/:/home/www/tom.s9yblogs.org/"
</VirtualHost>
-- httpd.conf

my host: servage ,says its not possible to change or edit apache config file .

so if you don't have a solution , i can't install Shared Installation:





i 'm sad sad sad :no multi-blog concept for my site!!!



i hope in you garvinhicking !!!

bye-bye

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

In some cases you can emulate that without editing apache config files. But you must know what those configs do to emulate them, it's not much sense to explain it because maintaining a shared installation simply requires some knowledge, you cannot reallly use it well without.

Best regards,
Garvin