I have done this all in one site tree with multiple homes and a plugin to manage routing and a plugin (webskins) for each site.
It is currently only running one site in production, but on my dev server with just me it seems fine On 27 October 2010 13:52, theog <[email protected]> wrote: > I have worked with farcry before, however that was many years ago, i > thought of it as a very powerful CMS back then. > > My question is, what would be the best approach in terms of using > farcry to manage hundreds of small websites. > > The basic requirements are as follows : > Have an automated script to configure/setup/build out 400+ websites. > These websites share many things in common, for example the look and > feel is very similar, however variation in the css i.e. logo's colours > would differ from site to site. The navigation will be the same > structure and so will the templates for rendering the displays. > Each site would have it's own login to administer its own navigation > and content. > > > I have thought through two solutions to a point so far, it would be > great if someone can offer some advice who has come across a similar > scenario. > > > > Build a new Project for each website, with it's own directory. The > issue i have with this is that the sites are so similar, having a > separate project/directory seems like a nightmare to manage. > > The second solution is to have one farcry project. each child node of > the root would be considered a separate website. i.e. > > +root > +website1 > +website2 > + ... > > sub-domain will map to website1.farcry.com will map to root\website1, > that will become the root node for that micro-website. > > Create a role and user to manage each website that only has permission > to it's content. i.e. user:website2admin can only modify the > navigation and content from + root \ website1. > > The obvious issue i see here is, I'm kind of fudging farcry to fit my > requirement. For example other areas of the admin example news > content, calendar content will be accessible by all the websites. > > Is that clear as mud? Your advice would be very helpful. > > Theo > > > > > > > -- > You received this message cos you are subscribed to "farcry-dev" Google > group. > To post, email: [email protected] > To unsubscribe, email: > [email protected]<farcry-dev%[email protected]> > For more options: http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev > -------------------------------- > Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/farcry -- *AJ Mercer* <webonix:net strength="Industrial" /> <http://webonix.net> | <webonix:org community="Open" /> <http://webonix.org> http://twitter.com/webonix -- You received this message cos you are subscribed to "farcry-dev" Google group. To post, email: [email protected] To unsubscribe, email: [email protected] For more options: http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev -------------------------------- Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/farcry
