Do you need to host more than one blog using dotclear? The Dotclear documentation suggests several unofficial ways to do this: 2.0:admin:multiblog - Dotclear Documentation
The suggested methods involving hosting the blogs from a single dotclear installation and url. However, probably a far more common requirement is to want to host blogs from differently named virtual hosts sharing the same ip address. For example suppose you are a sports fan. You might want to run blogs with urls of the form: my_football_website/my_football_blog and my_cricket_website/my_cricket_blog.
So why not just run separate dotclear installations, hosted in different urls and each referring to a different database?
Using the url examples above, like this:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Enter your mysql password (Warning: you may be asked for your sudo password first)
CREATE DATABASE football;
CREATE DATABASE cricket;
exit;
Navigate to the directory where your top level index.html and other html files are for the football web site
Do: mkdir my_football_blog then cd my_football_blog
Download the dotclear installer with: sudo wget http://download.dotclear.org/latest.tar.gz
Then expand the archive with: sudo tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz
Move the dotclear files up one directory with: sudo mv dotclear/* .
Note that the closing "." above is not a punctuation mark. It is needed in the command to indicate the current directory as the destination of the moved files!
Now loosen some permissions with:
sudo chmod a+w cache/
sudo chmod a+w inc/
sudo chmod a+w public/
In any browser, you can now do the equivalent of:
https://my_football_website_url/my_football_blog/admin/install/index.php
and you will see the first configuration screen. The hostname will be localhost and the database name football You also need to enter your mysql username and password. On hitting Continue, you will be asked to create a user name and password for exclusive access to the dotclear configuration screens. After that, you will be taken to the multi-featured configuration options for your blog and can start to make posts.
Access the configuration and blog editing screens with: https://my_football_website_url/my_football_blog/admin/index.php
Similarly for the cricket site:
Navigate to the directory where your top level index.html and other html files are for the cricket web site
Do: mkdir my_cricket_blog then cd my_cricket_blog
Copy in the dotclear latest.tar.gz from the football web site directories, or download it a second time with wget, as above.
Then expand the archive with: sudo tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz
Move the dotclear files up one directory with: sudo mv dotclear/* .
Note that the closing "." above is not a punctuation mark. It is needed in the command to indicate the current directory as the destination of the moved files!
Now loosen some permissions with:
sudo chmod a+w cache/
sudo chmod a+w inc/
sudo chmod a+w public/
In any browser, you can now do the equivalent of:
https://my_cricket_website_url/my_cricket_blog/admin/install/index.php
and you will see the first configuration screen. The hostname will be localhost and the database name cricket You also need to enter your mysql username and password. On hitting Continue, you will be asked to create a user name and password for exclusive access to the dotclear configuration screens. After that, you will be taken to the multi-featured configuration options for your blog and can start to make posts.
Access the configuration and blog editing screens with: https://my_cricket_website_url/my_cricket_blog/admin/index.php
Thats it! Two blogs hosted on different virtual hosts and entirely independent of each other.
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