RE: [cobalt-users] help with a Web problem?

["Jason Humphrey" <Jasonh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What raq is this? On the raq 4 you can make any user a siteadmin user by
ticking the box that says site administrator? (I say on the raq 4, that's
what I have I expect it is there on other raqs too!)

Are these people used to FTP and HTML etc??
If not then I use a content management system called mambo which is free
this is much easier for staff to get the hang off. I tried teaching them
how to use FTP and a HTML editor but they didn't realise when they said
"we only just know how to turn a computer on" that they actually meant it!

I really would not suggest letting all staff loose with ftp access as they
will be able to delete, edit well almost anything to anything anyone has
uploaded. NOT GOOD. If you want anymore info feel free to contact me off
the mailing list. (Jasonh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Thanks
Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jim Dory
Sent: 27 January 2004 18:09
To: Cobalt Users List
Subject: [cobalt-users] help with a Web problem?


This question may be more appropriate on a web designer forum, but maybe 
there is some functionality of the raq4r that I can take advantage of 
and I know there's lots of experts on this list, so here goes:

I was a complete newb when I received and setup the raq for hosting our 
company email and website. Since I didn't know what I was doing I began 
with a web domain that I could use as a test, and named the raq that. I 
set it all up, but then added a virtual site as our main City website. I 
left the test domain, because it seemed like a lot of fixing to change 
it. So the first site setup is nomecity.org, and the site we now use is 
nomealaska.org. I'm the system admin as well as site admin for both.

Our webpage has different departments, and now one of them needs to do 
their own updates. The clerks want to be able to put up their own 
calendar of meetings (council, planning, utility board, etc..) and 
agendas. I can see other departments eventually wanting some input on 
their pages. Currently I do it all.

We have one static ip address.

So I'm wondering how to best give them access. One possibility is to buy 
another domain name and setup a second virtual site and make them site 
admins, and have our main site link to it. Would that make the most 
sense? But I suppose we would need a domain for each active department 
then. But that may only amount to a couple.

 Other possibilities I've thought of are other hosting sites with 
calendaring,  or install some kind of calendar software on our raq.. but 
that doesn't let them upload agendas... Our ISP allows some free website 
space with our account, so I could somehow use that. I'm not sure if 
.htaccess would work in this case.. I don't understand that concept 
yet.. but seems like they would need the siteadmin password? I'm 
probably missing something very simple here.. Thanks for any thoughts..

-- 
Jim D.

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