[development] Allowing users to create easy pre-fab sites?

[Victor Kane]

aegir for the hosting, absolutely...

then... sweaver! yes! http://drupal.org/project/sweaver

<http://drupal.org/project/sweaver>see videos, see demo, see sweaver! I love
stuff that empowers!

Victor Kane
http://awebfactory.com.ar

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Bob Fishel <bob at bobforthejob.com> wrote:

> Aegir looks interesting but my main site is (planned... i'm still
> drawing up a site plan before implementing) using Domain Access.
>
> The main site is www.example.com
> and will have a number of sub sites based on cities
> city1.example.com
> city2.example.com
> ...
> These subsites will have their own set of content but will all use the
> same theme and some subsites will need to pull content from others
> (for example the dayton site will pull some content from the
> cincinnati and the columbus sites etc...)
>
> However I want to allow my users to sign up for their own domains that
> will possibly pull some content from one or more of the subsites.
> (basically making certain pre-fabbed views available for them to link
> to)
>
> So it appears that domain access doesn't play well with Aegir.
>
> So two possible solutions.
>
> 1. Host a separate drupal install with Aegir but not Domain Access at
> something like Aegir.example.com and execute a shell script that
> utilizes Drush when someone purchases a hosting package. Share any
> needed nodes to the other install via RSS.
>
> 2.  Something else that i'm not thinking of that would allow D omain
> access to manage the main site and subsites but aegir to manage
> anything other then *.example.com and example.com
>
> Any ideas on how to accomplish #2 or any flaws in #1?
>
> Thanks for the feedback.
>
> -Bob
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Peter Droogmans <Peter at attiks.com>
> wrote:
> > Bob,
> >
> > 1. Have a look at aegir (http://groups.drupal.org/aegir-hosting-system)
> and combine it with some install profiles
> >
> > 2. You can set the themes per site
> >
> > 3. Have a look at context module, it includes an editor to drag and drop
> blocks
> >
> > 4. Users are set per site, so no worries
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: development-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:
> development-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Bob Fishel
> > Sent: woensdag 28 juli 2010 3:46 PM
> > To: development at drupal.org
> > Subject: [development] Allowing users to create easy pre-fab sites?
> >
> > Is anyone aware of anyone using Drupal as a hosting system.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Basically I want them to be able to:
> >
> > 1. Be assigned a template domain/site with some default pages with some
> lorem ipsum text (should be easy to accomplish using rules)
> >
> > 2. Be able to switch themes on their domain only (I'm not sure how to do
> this)
> >
> > 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)
> >
> > 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....)
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > -Bob
> >
> >
>
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