[AktiviX-discuss] blogs

[Chris]

Hi

On Wed 06-May-2009 at 01:52:00PM +0100, aktivix-discuss-bounces at lists.aktivix.org wrote:
> 
> as some people may know, i've been trying to set up some blog software
> so that aktivix can provide blogs to people. i've tried a whole range
> of possibilities, and i'm still playing (a little) but i wanted to
> raise some points for discussion, and also open a space up so that
> people can ask questions or make suggestions or whatever.
> 
> first, the most crucial question: the domain name.
> 
>  * can we give people USERNAME.aktivix.org domain names, or does it
>    have to be USERNAME.blogs.aktivix.org ?

If you want a wild card dns like we have for the wiki,
*.wiki.aktivix.org to point to the ip of the server then yes, it would
have to be NAME.blogs.aktivix.org

Otherwise you need to add a dns entry for each site, whitch would be a
PITA...

> personally, i would very much like to give people USERNAME.aktivix.org
> as i think the other one is too long.
> 
> other questions....
> 
> * do we want to be able to host USERNAME.otherdomain.net on the same
>   platform as well?
> 
> (i think we do)
> 
> * security: if we have *only* secure access, there will probably be
>   *lots* of warnings that might be hard to fix when we have lots of
>   separate sites all trying to use the same certificate.

It shouldn't be an issue, if the other domain's allow the admin of the
server to generate cacert certs then a script can generate the csr after
a domain name is added, if people can't sort out replying to a
root at otherdomain.net email then they would have to live with a cert
warning.

> i think that http access is probably necessary - at least for just
> viewing sites. chris may have some useful thoughts tho?

Sure, just require https for logins.

Chris

> i guess it's useful to have a kind of timeframe for discussion so can
> we say 72 hours? unless there's loads of discussion in which case we
> could always postpone the deadline.