I have been looking for blogging software to use for a special project.
My son is being deployed to Iraq in a month and I would like to have someplace for him and his company to post individual blogs so their families and friends can keep up with them. I have a server running Fedora 4 to put this on.
I have several sites up and running, but have never put up a blogging site.
Will this software allow multiple blogs (from each member of his company, if they desire) and allow people to see them?
Thanks for your time in answering dumb questions.
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Actually, if you want to have completely seperate blogs, Serendipity won't allow that out of the box.
Though, there are some ways of bypassing this:
1. Install a new Serendipity Blog for each sub-blog. This is like installing multiple forums or multiple galleries, so each blog will have its own database and its own users. This method can be enhanced by using the "Shared installation" feature of serendipity. This only requires installing the codebase of Serendipity once, and just copying a handful of files for each sub-blog, which all refer to the central installation. This is described a bit more in depth on http://www.s9y.org/index.php?node=41 - it can also be done on a directory basis and not per vhost. I have to admit that a bit of administration skills are required to get this to work. Each sub-blog will still be completely on its own database.
2. Have one single blog, and create multiple authors/users for that. You can have different categories into which the users can post. You can make postings unique via CSS templating so that you can see entries by your son in read, other's entries in blue - or have icons to show which author is posting what.
For more advanced use you can make certain categories into sub-blogs via a Plugin. Those sub-blogs can then have a different layout. Precisely, you'd have categories like "Personal", "Company" and "Work", and each of those categories can be viewed in their unique layout.
HTH,
Garvin
Though, there are some ways of bypassing this:
1. Install a new Serendipity Blog for each sub-blog. This is like installing multiple forums or multiple galleries, so each blog will have its own database and its own users. This method can be enhanced by using the "Shared installation" feature of serendipity. This only requires installing the codebase of Serendipity once, and just copying a handful of files for each sub-blog, which all refer to the central installation. This is described a bit more in depth on http://www.s9y.org/index.php?node=41 - it can also be done on a directory basis and not per vhost. I have to admit that a bit of administration skills are required to get this to work. Each sub-blog will still be completely on its own database.
2. Have one single blog, and create multiple authors/users for that. You can have different categories into which the users can post. You can make postings unique via CSS templating so that you can see entries by your son in read, other's entries in blue - or have icons to show which author is posting what.
For more advanced use you can make certain categories into sub-blogs via a Plugin. Those sub-blogs can then have a different layout. Precisely, you'd have categories like "Personal", "Company" and "Work", and each of those categories can be viewed in their unique layout.
HTH,
Garvin
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