Hi there,
I currently have two unique sites each requiring a news section which
I planned to content manage through blog software. I installed
Mephisto on the the same server as the two apps, and had it running
successfully, providing news to one of the two sites now in
operation. I then tried getting Mephisto running in multi-site mode,
but it’s not working, and I’m wondering, whether it’s worth pulling
the few strands of hair remaining on my head out over this.
Why am I running this blogging engine in memory on my server when I
can free up the memory its using for either a forum or other
mongrels? What would you do to get news onto the two sites? Here are
my thoughts/questions. Let me know if I’m missing something, and how
you’d handle this.
Option 1: kill Mephisto, use something like Blogger to publish to a
directory for each of the two sites and setup apache to point
news.mydomain1.com and news.mydomain2.com to each unique news
directory. I would want to support user comments on the news, and I
don’t know that would work in this “static” scenario? Don’t know much
about the blogging-sphere.
Option 2: host the blog somewhere else using a publishing tool like
Blogger, and point the sub-domains news.mydomain1.com and
news.mydomain2.com to the online instances. Not sure if that’s even
possible?
Option 3: Figure out how to debug and get Mephisto working in multi-
site setup.
What am I missing? What would you do to get basic news onto two sites
of yours allowing user comments, but without adding two much overhead?
I look forward to your responses and thanks!
-Alex