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Posted to user@roller.apache.org by "Williams, Allen" <aw...@harris.com> on 2006/12/18 20:37:21 UTC
Installation into an Existing WebSite
Hello!
I have an existing website (Debian Linux/Apache/Tomcat/MySQL)
to which I would like to add blogging capability. Since you
see this message, you may infer that I'm (very) interested in
roller.
This site has users log in and sets up an area for groups of users
that may be members of an organization (like the "chess club") or
just have common interests. I'd like to put a link on their page
that goes to a roller blog that they have control over (they can
make it public, private, allow anyone to post or restrict posting,
etc.).
Are there any guidelines, or can someone point me to a place that
shows me how to do this (i. e., to integrate roller into an existing
webapp)? Presuming what I want to do can be done, of course (but,
I have faith;=)
Thanks, and Regards,
anw
Re: Installation into an Existing WebSite
Posted by Shutra Zhou <zh...@gmail.com>.
Integrate them by SSO.
2006/12/19, Olav Terje Bergo <ol...@ba.no>:
>
> Sorry, cannot help you.
> Olav Bergo
>
> ________________________________
>
> Fra: Williams, Allen [mailto:awilli08@harris.com]
> Sendt: ma 18.12.2006 20:37
> Til: roller-user@incubator.apache.org
> Emne: Installation into an Existing WebSite
>
>
>
> Hello!
>
> I have an existing website (Debian Linux/Apache/Tomcat/MySQL)
> to which I would like to add blogging capability. Since you
> see this message, you may infer that I'm (very) interested in
> roller.
>
> This site has users log in and sets up an area for groups of users
> that may be members of an organization (like the "chess club") or
> just have common interests. I'd like to put a link on their page
> that goes to a roller blog that they have control over (they can
> make it public, private, allow anyone to post or restrict posting,
> etc.).
>
> Are there any guidelines, or can someone point me to a place that
> shows me how to do this (i. e., to integrate roller into an existing
> webapp)? Presuming what I want to do can be done, of course (but,
> I have faith;=)
>
> Thanks, and Regards,
> anw
>
>
>
>
>
SV: Installation into an Existing WebSite
Posted by Olav Terje Bergo <ol...@ba.no>.
Sorry, cannot help you.
Olav Bergo
________________________________
Fra: Williams, Allen [mailto:awilli08@harris.com]
Sendt: ma 18.12.2006 20:37
Til: roller-user@incubator.apache.org
Emne: Installation into an Existing WebSite
Hello!
I have an existing website (Debian Linux/Apache/Tomcat/MySQL)
to which I would like to add blogging capability. Since you
see this message, you may infer that I'm (very) interested in
roller.
This site has users log in and sets up an area for groups of users
that may be members of an organization (like the "chess club") or
just have common interests. I'd like to put a link on their page
that goes to a roller blog that they have control over (they can
make it public, private, allow anyone to post or restrict posting,
etc.).
Are there any guidelines, or can someone point me to a place that
shows me how to do this (i. e., to integrate roller into an existing
webapp)? Presuming what I want to do can be done, of course (but,
I have faith;=)
Thanks, and Regards,
anw
RE: Installation into an Existing WebSite
Posted by "Williams, Allen" <aw...@harris.com>.
Thanks to you and Sutra, both. I will investigate this. I was also
thinking about getting between the view and controller in the roller
architecture (courtesy some documentation I received from Dave on the
web site [is this you?]). The problem there is that it may be easier
to write a really simple blogger from scratch than to do that, since I
already
have basic jsp and database pieces. I really like all the blogger
features,
though, and don't believe I'm going to reproduce all that in any timely
manner.
I'll be starting this phase in about a week, and if I make any headway,
I'll post.
Thanks, and Regards,
________________________
Allen Williams
allen.williams@harris.com
Office: (321)309-7931
Mobile: (321)258-1272
FAX: (321)727-9607
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave [mailto:snoopdave@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 8:38 AM
To: roller-user@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Installation into an Existing WebSite
It's probably not possible to integrate Roller into an existing webapp
without significant code changes to Roller (and your existing app). If
you go that route, please report back and let us know how it goes --
maybe there are some simple things we can do to make such integration
easier or at least possible.
As Olav suggested, one solution is to use SSO to allow your users to
be logged into both applications at once. There's also an Admin API
web service, which your application could use to provision Roller user
accounts and blogs for each of your users.
Another solution would be to create a "blog this" capability within
your app that allows your users to post a blog entry to the weblog
server of their choice (via MetaWeblog API) -- as Flickr.com and other
sites do. Roller supports the MetaWeblog API and you can create a
MetaWeblog API using Apache XML-RPC and/or the Blog Client code from
the Blogapps project (http://blogapps.dev.java.net).
- Dave
On 12/18/06, Williams, Allen <aw...@harris.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have an existing website (Debian Linux/Apache/Tomcat/MySQL)
> to which I would like to add blogging capability. Since you
> see this message, you may infer that I'm (very) interested in
> roller.
>
> This site has users log in and sets up an area for groups of users
> that may be members of an organization (like the "chess club") or
> just have common interests. I'd like to put a link on their page
> that goes to a roller blog that they have control over (they can
> make it public, private, allow anyone to post or restrict posting,
> etc.).
>
> Are there any guidelines, or can someone point me to a place that
> shows me how to do this (i. e., to integrate roller into an existing
> webapp)? Presuming what I want to do can be done, of course (but,
> I have faith;=)
>
> Thanks, and Regards,
> anw
>
Re: Installation into an Existing WebSite
Posted by Dave <sn...@gmail.com>.
It's probably not possible to integrate Roller into an existing webapp
without significant code changes to Roller (and your existing app). If
you go that route, please report back and let us know how it goes --
maybe there are some simple things we can do to make such integration
easier or at least possible.
As Olav suggested, one solution is to use SSO to allow your users to
be logged into both applications at once. There's also an Admin API
web service, which your application could use to provision Roller user
accounts and blogs for each of your users.
Another solution would be to create a "blog this" capability within
your app that allows your users to post a blog entry to the weblog
server of their choice (via MetaWeblog API) -- as Flickr.com and other
sites do. Roller supports the MetaWeblog API and you can create a
MetaWeblog API using Apache XML-RPC and/or the Blog Client code from
the Blogapps project (http://blogapps.dev.java.net).
- Dave
On 12/18/06, Williams, Allen <aw...@harris.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have an existing website (Debian Linux/Apache/Tomcat/MySQL)
> to which I would like to add blogging capability. Since you
> see this message, you may infer that I'm (very) interested in
> roller.
>
> This site has users log in and sets up an area for groups of users
> that may be members of an organization (like the "chess club") or
> just have common interests. I'd like to put a link on their page
> that goes to a roller blog that they have control over (they can
> make it public, private, allow anyone to post or restrict posting,
> etc.).
>
> Are there any guidelines, or can someone point me to a place that
> shows me how to do this (i. e., to integrate roller into an existing
> webapp)? Presuming what I want to do can be done, of course (but,
> I have faith;=)
>
> Thanks, and Regards,
> anw
>