AbydosGater Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 Hey Guys, You know all the hosting sites for phpBB, or InvisionFree for IPB. I was wondering how they are done? They whole way they have a registration system and that sets up a board for you. I was wondering how you i could go about setting this up? Whats the best methods. Thanks Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 I was wondering how you i could go about setting this up? Whats the best methods. Firstly you would need at least a VPS I should imagine. The setting up of the boards would simply be automation through scripting. Probably done in Bash though it would be easy enough to do with php. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbydosGater Posted July 12, 2007 Author Share Posted July 12, 2007 I have a VPS. Ive been wanting to get around doing this, I plan on starting a small blog software project and i dont want to open it on the open source just yet. But i cant figure out how i would set it all up though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 Well, it really depends on the blog software you intend to use. Some, will more than likely enable you to have one installation for the sftware outside of the web root which will act as the backend for all users sites. Assuming you'd want all your users to get there own sub domain the process would be quite simple. You can easily create a mod_rewrite rule in your httpd.conf that will allow this. Then, and I'm not sure what OS your using but the process would be something like.... 1: Script the creation of a new user on the system. (Do not allow (system) login access) 2: Script the creation of a MySql database for said user. (Using the password they signed up with) 3: Copy the files required to run the blog into the users /home/user/htdocs directory. 4: Run whatever setup is required to enable the user to login to there blog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbydosGater Posted July 13, 2007 Author Share Posted July 13, 2007 Ohhh, Now i get it. Interesting methods! Thank you! Will get some pen and paper and get working on it! Thanks Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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