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How To Create Multiple BLOGs for a Community Site's Members?
Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 8:27 am
by vincentrich
Hello everyone,
This is my first post here. I've seen various PHP blog scripts but I find this particular script the best I've seen so far.
Anyway, I was wondering if its possible to create a BLOG for every member of my web site?
Is there a plug in for it or do I have to customize it heavily? I am afraid if I have to customize it heavily, it would be very difficult to update to future versions of this script.
My dream is to create a blog service on my web site similar to LiveJournal.com whereby all members will have their own unique URL.
For my case it would be something like
www.oasisfanatic/blog/myname/
That would be very cool! It would bring in a lot of traffic and hopefully push up my Search engine rankings at the same time.
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 6:30 pm
by houndbee
You can try the Shared Installation setup, but be warned that this is still very experimental and will get better and easier-to-use in future versions, currently recommended only to advanced users who have good knowledge of Apache virtual hosting setups.
Find the documentation
here
Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 2:35 pm
by vincentrich
thanks! i can't install virtual subdomains on my web host but I could simply redirect them to a folder created with their usernames right? I'll test this out soon.
Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 2:39 pm
by garvinhicking
Hi!
Yes, you could use RewriteRules/Subdirectories instead.
The only thing which makes shared blogs hard to setup is that you need to create your own scripts/routines to create a new blog. The steps which need to be taken are documented, though. But because of the variety of different webserver-setups, we don't distribute a default script.
Regards,
Garvin.
Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 12:38 pm
by jhermanns
garvinhicking wrote:But because of the variety of different webserver-setups, we don't distribute a default script.
YET!
Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 8:00 pm
by mrkrrtft
So if I understand correctly currently Serendipity can't do multiple blogs like Moveable Type does at the moment? btw ... this isn't a dig I'm just trying to figure out how best to migrate my three blogs to Serendipity.
Thanks,
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 9:15 am
by garvinhicking
Hi!
mrkrrtft wrote:So if I understand correctly currently Serendipity can't do multiple blogs like Moveable Type does at the moment? btw ... this isn't a dig I'm just trying to figure out how best to migrate my three blogs to Serendipity.
I don'T know movable Type and how it handles multiple blogs; but as written above, it is possible to create multiple blogs, but each with their own admin page; but sharing the same codebase.
HTH,
Garvin.
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 3:51 pm
by mrkrrtft
garvinhicking wrote:
mrkrrtft wrote:So if I understand correctly currently Serendipity can't do multiple blogs like Moveable Type does at the moment? btw ... this isn't a dig I'm just trying to figure out how best to migrate my three blogs to Serendipity.
I don'T know movable Type and how it handles multiple blogs; but as written above, it is possible to create multiple blogs, but each with their own admin page; but sharing the same codebase.
Yeah it does help. I'll wipe my test database and try the shared installation. I'll let you know how it works out. By the way, I tried a couple of other blogware products yesterday and I kept coming back to Serendipity ... that's kind of cool since with MT I used to always go back to MT