Comments on: Managing multiple blogs more simply

Question: Managing multiple blogs more simply

Caviar — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:52:36 -0800

Is there any good solution for multi-url blog software? I've got a bunch of domains, and I want to run different blogs on each of them, but I don't want to have to install, say, a separate copy of Wordpress for each of them (and then have to go update all of them individually when there's an update). They're all located on the same physical server (linux/Apache).

Any ideas?

By: luriete

luriete — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:55:40 -0800

With Typepad you can have multiple weblogs sharing resources in the same account, each subdirectory being forwarded/masked from a separate domain. At least at the pro level. Is that what you mean?

By: Caviar

Caviar — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:58:50 -0800

I would prefer something I can put on my own server. It's likely that I'll want to hack the source in some way, and I'm already set up for hosting.

Free would be good, but if the right thing costs money, that's an option too.

By: kindall

kindall — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:07:42 -0800

It's trivial to set up Movable Type for this. You just create a directory for each blog in the filesystem, and tell MT that all the files for a given blog go in a the proper directory. Then you point Apache to those directories for the site for each domain you want hosted. Every user uses the same copy of MT and all their posts are stored in the same database. If you are planning to have multiple users and want your users to also have FTP access to these directories, you may have to set up some permissions by hand, but that shouldn't be too onerous for a reasonable number of users.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:17:44 -0800

pMachine Pro allows you to run multiple blogs from one installation. You can have them each display on the same page if you want.

By: sfenders

sfenders — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:34:40 -0800

I'm partial to blosxom. It's pretty much ideal if you want something simple and hackable.

By: majick

majick — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 18:17:37 -0800

Seconded: Blosxom and some fiddling with httpd.conf to get the virtual hosts taken care of is all you need. I set up Blosxom with AddHandler and voilia, done.

By: jonah

jonah — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 18:27:37 -0800

Expression Engine does this. All you have to do is put a php file on each domain you want a different blog to show up on. This is in their documentation and it is explicitly allowed in their terms of use.