aegir for the hosting, absolutely...<div><br></div><div>then... sweaver! yes! <a href="http://drupal.org/project/sweaver">http://drupal.org/project/sweaver</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://drupal.org/project/sweaver"></a>see videos, see demo, see sweaver! I love stuff that empowers!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Victor Kane</div><div><a href="http://awebfactory.com.ar">http://awebfactory.com.ar</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Bob Fishel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bob@bobforthejob.com">bob@bobforthejob.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Aegir looks interesting but my main site is (planned... i'm still<br>
drawing up a site plan before implementing) using Domain Access.<br>
<br>
The main site is <a href="http://www.example.com" target="_blank">www.example.com</a><br>
and will have a number of sub sites based on cities<br>
<a href="http://city1.example.com" target="_blank">city1.example.com</a><br>
<a href="http://city2.example.com" target="_blank">city2.example.com</a><br>
...<br>
These subsites will have their own set of content but will all use the<br>
same theme and some subsites will need to pull content from others<br>
(for example the dayton site will pull some content from the<br>
cincinnati and the columbus sites etc...)<br>
<br>
However I want to allow my users to sign up for their own domains that<br>
will possibly pull some content from one or more of the subsites.<br>
(basically making certain pre-fabbed views available for them to link<br>
to)<br>
<br>
So it appears that domain access doesn't play well with Aegir.<br>
<br>
So two possible solutions.<br>
<br>
1. Host a separate drupal install with Aegir but not Domain Access at<br>
something like <a href="http://Aegir.example.com" target="_blank">Aegir.example.com</a> and execute a shell script that<br>
utilizes Drush when someone purchases a hosting package. Share any<br>
needed nodes to the other install via RSS.<br>
<br>
2. Something else that i'm not thinking of that would allow D omain<br>
access to manage the main site and subsites but aegir to manage<br>
anything other then *.<a href="http://example.com" target="_blank">example.com</a> and <a href="http://example.com" target="_blank">example.com</a><br>
<br>
Any ideas on how to accomplish #2 or any flaws in #1?<br>
<br>
Thanks for the feedback.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
-Bob<br>
</font><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Peter Droogmans <<a href="mailto:Peter@attiks.com">Peter@attiks.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Bob,<br>
><br>
> 1. Have a look at aegir (<a href="http://groups.drupal.org/aegir-hosting-system" target="_blank">http://groups.drupal.org/aegir-hosting-system</a>) and combine it with some install profiles<br>
><br>
> 2. You can set the themes per site<br>
><br>
> 3. Have a look at context module, it includes an editor to drag and drop blocks<br>
><br>
> 4. Users are set per site, so no worries<br>
><br>
> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: <a href="mailto:development-bounces@drupal.org">development-bounces@drupal.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:development-bounces@drupal.org">development-bounces@drupal.org</a>] On Behalf Of Bob Fishel<br>
> Sent: woensdag 28 juli 2010 3:46 PM<br>
> To: <a href="mailto:development@drupal.org">development@drupal.org</a><br>
> Subject: [development] Allowing users to create easy pre-fab sites?<br>
><br>
> Is anyone aware of anyone using Drupal as a hosting system.<br>
><br>
> My goal is to allow users (probably through OG + Domain Access + Domain Access Advanced + ubercart) to purchase a hosting plan and automatically have a domain set up for them.<br>
><br>
> My users are all in the same industry so the type of nodes they will need to create can be boiled down to a simple 3-4 types.<br>
><br>
> Basically I want them to be able to:<br>
><br>
> 1. Be assigned a template domain/site with some default pages with some lorem ipsum text (should be easy to accomplish using rules)<br>
><br>
> 2. Be able to switch themes on their domain only (I'm not sure how to do this)<br>
><br>
> 3. It'd be totally awesome if they could modify there themes by dragging and dropping blocks to change the layout of their particular site (again no idea how to do this)<br>
><br>
> 4. Grant other users the ability to edit their site (I'm not sure how to do this without exposing my entire user list to them....)<br>
><br>
> Thanks<br>
><br>
> -Bob<br>
><br>
><br>
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