Hi
Have you ever considered multi site, or more correctly, multi domain support
in Roller?
Let me try to explain what I put in the expression multi domain support
with an example:
Lets say company FooBar Inc is a multi national company with different
offices in several countries (US, UK and Japan). FooBar Inc want to set up a
blog for there employees in all countries so they can share insight
information and thoughts with the public in an easy way. FooBar Inc is an
open source minded company :-) FooBar Inc has one centralized server farm
where they want to set up this blog software for all countries.
The problem FooBar Inc faces is that each country has different domains
(www.foobar.com, www.foobar.co.uk, and www.foobar.co.jp) and they will also
have different sets of templates for each country. In each country there
will be several employees which has there private blog.
To solve this with Roller today, FooBar Inc must make one installation of
Roller for each country. This will result in one DB instance for each
country and one installation running for each country.
This is not very efficient, especially for the girls and guys maintaining
the day to day server for this purpose and it will be even more complex
since FooBar Inc has the intention to expand to 20 more countries and also
provide the same internet services for these offices.
The perfect solution for FooBar Inc would be if there was some kind of multi
domain support. In other words one extra layer which made it possible to
separate country from country so each country can have there own domain and
there own set of templates (and configuration; like language and what
features in the blog which are turned on and off) but there are still one
installation and one DB instance.
NOTE: Country is here an example. It might be that a company wants to have
one set of intranet blogs, one set of Internet blogs and one set of extranet
blogs which they want to run on the same installation.
Was that understandable?
The reason Im asking are because my company are going to use Roller in an
almost similar situation as this and we are very interested in such kind of
support in Roller.
We do have a couple of developers which we might dedicate to build parts of
such and support and contribute back to the Roller project if this is an
feature the project would like to have.
The first questions we are wondering about are:
- Is the project interested in this?
- If so; what changes must be done to implement such a multi domain support?
- If so; how deep and how complicated will the changes in the structure be?
Kind regards:
Trygve
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