New Message: Manila Best Practices?

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By: Steve Kirks (srk at mac.com)

Also posted at Manila Newbies...

I'm evaluating a Manila installation and have run into a few situations where I've caused more problems than I can fix. This led me to wonder, "Is there a Manila best practices list?" somewhere on the 'net.
I'm not looking for the user end--there is a wealth of documentation about how to use Manila, once it's installed and configured for use. The stuff I'm looking for is strictly admin things, like:

* What server--Mac Classic, MacOS X, Windows?
How to add and delete sites *without* resorting to remote control of the host server

* How can you ensure that all new sites you create allow the admin to be a member automatically?

* Virtual hosting--keeping one domain's content separate from others

* Creating sites with top-level domains instead of subdirectories--how does everyone handle script the DNS changes required?

* WebEdit seems like an answer to some things, but you still have to know the table/address structure of the elements you want to pull and why to edit them (ex: deleting a site)

This is not intended to be a post where everyone tries to answer each question here, but instead I would be happy to learn if I had the right documentation to support it. I've spent the last four days creating sites and mapping domains, but I've made enough errors that I want to reset the Frontier install for the second time and start fresh.

If anyone wants to poke around on the machine, a username and password is available via private email.

My setup: Frontier 9 on MacOS 9.2.2, 100MB RAM devoted to Frontier, latest root updates. PowerMac G3/300--performance is fine for testing, BTW. :>

Steve Kirks

This is a Manila site.. http://manila.userland.com/.