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

["Ligard, Vidar" <vligard@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Dory
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 12:09 PM
> 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..

An idea on this is to set up subdomains. You would not have to purchase
another domain,
And each subdomain would have its on site on the raq, fully manageable
by each department w/o anyone being able to mess up each other's sites.

E.g.
dept1.nomealaska.org as a site on the raq
dept2.nomealaska.org as another site.

You would enter these into the DNS server for nomealsaka.org and have
them point to the one ip you are using. These would then just be virtual
sites on the same ip.

If you want the same look and feel on these sites, simple copy over the
site template.

HTH,
Vidar
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> Jim D.
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