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I am looking for a system to setup a free and paid blog site something like blogger or typepad. One where users can signup and start their own blog. The blogs are not connected together like a community or anything.

From what I have read here and the sites I have looked at Geeklog is more of a community type of blog/portal system rather than what I am looking for correct?

Anyone know of some good software for running such a site?

You could create a setup where every user gets their own Geeklog site (this FAQ entry may come in handy) or you could use the Journal plugin.

bye, Dirk

Thanks Dirk, I looked through the FAQ and that could be an option if I wanted to a lot manualy as far as setting up everyones account, plus it would be hard to control quotas.

The Journal pluging seems pretty untested, I tried to go to Tony's web site but it seems down at the moment. Has anyone used this plugin?

I like geeklog, it has a lot of what I am looking for I just need a way to make it so that when users register they can have their own simple blog plus participate in the community blogs.

Try the version from CVS - I did actually do some work on it over the weekend. I haven't been using it much myself lately, but just to see it in action, go here.

bye, Dirk

Do you think you could post a link to a .gz of the latest version? I tried setting up the winCVS using the instructions but I must be doing something wrong because I can not get it to work. I also tried to use the web based version and I found it but it is sooo slow and I have to download each file one at a time.

I did it the web way, because I wasn't able to use tortoise on it neither. You can grab it from my page geKow.net it's called journal.zip (Sorry, can't gz)

geKow

Thanks, I got it!

geKow. You're GL site is incredible. Its simple yet sexy. I love it. Great job.

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*phew* so the shameless self promotion finally pays.

Your's is nice too, btw.

geKow

@geKow : Read your disclaimer on your front page, try using my HTTP_REFERER plugin for geeklog to track referers and search phrases, that way you don't have to ask people to post on your forum what they searched for, it's available on my site (should be a link that works in my profile) or from the downloads here.

@DamnSkippy: Try livejournal, it's open source, so you can get your own version of the code and run a free/pay site exactly like they do (http://www.livejournal.org) if you can't find a good way to do it with geeklog. LJ is set up for pay sites and stuff though.

THEMike: thanks, I use the vstats plugin wich gives me the refferer and search phrases too.

My intention was to force/beg visitors to contibute in any way to my page and maybe start a kind of conversation

geKow

THEMike: I'm running your refferer now and it looks good. Exept one little thing, it doesn't bother the timezone hack, so it show the server time, but as I said, this is a cosmetic thing

geKow

edit: and it can't handle german special characters (or is that a problem somewhere else?)

There are several CMS systems out there for doing what you're talking about. Slash, Scoop, Drupal, Tikiwikiall come to mind.

I am so thrilled with GL at the moment that I've dropped all my efforts at working with the others (Drupal and Tikiwiki are the ones I was looking at seriously).

I've not come across anything I liked this much since I first found Zope.

Zope still rules, btw, but GL is soooooo smooth, and it runs on many more and much cheaper hosts.