Hi,
I'm looking for a CMS solution where I can add users that can have their own managable subsite under the maindomain/maininstallation.
So let's say I have an installation using domain.tld and I want to have a user that can signup and have his own website with own webcontent and own layout under domain.tld/username or username.domain.com using a wildcard on the domain for the last one and is only able to manage his own sub-website.
I have searched and tested a lot here last days bit I'm not able to find out if this is really possible with drupal at this moment.
I have seen a lot of subdomain modules like domain_access, Organic Groups and so on, but domain_access is in development, and for the other modules I can't say really if that is what I need.
What I would like to have is the following:
- User with own userdomain as a /username or subdomain.
- Own content
- Own layout
- (administrated with rights on extentions/modules by the main administrator)
- No extra vhosts for subdomains
- No extra installs of drupal for every user
- Single DB would be perfect, but a DB per user can be nice also... as long as the user is running under one fileinstallation.
Because I'm really searching and testing for days now and I'm really lost I open this topic in hope to get some advise/help.
What are the thoughts about this ?
Thanks,
Mat
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I am building a site for a
I am building a site for a client at the moment and faced the same issues as you outline above. As my client wants his users to be able to have their own name after the site name (i.e., www.site.com/username) as well as some of the other features you have enumerated above, I have settled for Organic Groups. I am not sure the layout can be configured on a per-group basis, but it meets very other one of the criteria you've noted. I strongly suggest you give OG a try. There is also the MySite module, which you may want to try. Good luck.
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As far as I understood the
As far as I understood the OG module supports different layouts.
The question is if people are able, so a user of the group, to install this layout themself.
The most nice would be if they need FTP access for it that you will have a directory with all usernames in it as folders and give the user FTP rights to his folder.
But the most nice would be everything from the Admin Interface for each user.
Thanks for your reply !
Actually, now that I think
Actually, now that I think about it, you are correct... if you have 10 themes installed, and make them all available to all users, then the owner of a group can in fact change the layout to the theme of his choice. There is an "edit" option for each group and the layout can be changed there. As for ftp, I believe that if you create individual profiles for users, then you can have ftp access to the profile folder in root, but I am not absolutely certain about this.
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Hi, Thanks, that is great to
Hi,
Thanks, that is great to hear all.
I have installed Drupal again + OG and it seems to be quite OK.
Something I really can't understand is how a group will have his own "subsite" as a URL, I can't find this in de documentation as well.
About the templates, this includes a full layout ? So in every template the menu can be on a different place for an example ?
When you create a group, you
When you create a group, you can give it its own URL... enable the path module in core, then create the group, look for URL path settings, and give it a path off root, such as mysite.com/groupname.
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OK, understood, thanks. What
OK, understood, thanks.
What I see, and I may be wrong here, is that the group still has his own site IN the mainsite. What I would like to have is that the group has his own complete frontend including the menu on the left side.
I still hope that this is possible.
Mysite Mod
There is a "mysite" module that sets up a mini site for the users as well. I have the mod, but haven't really tested it yet
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Hi,The MySite module is
Hi,
The MySite module is indeed what I need it seems. Because of the docs I was not sure before, so thanks for this all.
The problem still is that you work with columns now, so not a "Full featured site" as the normal install, but indeed you can add a menu and so on.
I think I'm getting there, but if this MySite module can make a whole new drupal layout for this user under the /mysite/username instead of those three columns (or what your set) with the default site menu in the left... this would be great !