New Message: Manila Best Practices?

[Scott Granneman]

I've posted tips and hints at http://manila.bryanconsulting.com. Feel free to 
use any of that information that you find useful.

Scott

On Wednesday 07 January 2004 11:56 am, webmaster at userland.com wrote:
> A new message was posted:
>
> Address: http://manila.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$231
>
> 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/.

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