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Create a backend on my server for clients

May 20, 2023 at 9:49 am #9997

[anonymous]

Hello there,

First of all, I would like to say Publii is an amazing solution. I was looking for a wordpress alternative giving me full power on front-end for static websites, and it does work very well for me.

I’m looking for creating a decoupled admin hosted on my server for my customers’ admin, instead of installing the Publii program on their computer with Dropbox, as mentioned here

Is there any solution with some kind of POST/PUT requests, so the user can edit directly his posts from any location?

Thanks a lot for your help!

Guillaume

May 22, 2023 at 11:54 am #10008

[anonymous]

@guillaumegc

Unless anyone else knows any different approach, I don’t think that’s currently reliably possible.

Sure, you can have multiple people working on a single Publii website using the Dropbox approach. Though when using Dropbox updates method, naturally its best if they all coordinate between themselves so everyone in the group knows who is doing updates at any particular time.

May 22, 2023 at 12:52 pm #10011

[anonymous]

I am using tortoise svn to sync websites data on multiple computers. Any cloud file sync works for this. But yes, coordination is still an issue. You can’t have 2 people working on the same website at the same time regardless what you are using. Because the file that has to be merged is the local database file db.sqlite and this one can’t be merged as a normal txt file. Tortoise svn has a “get lock” and “release lock” that can help with this.

May 22, 2023 at 1:44 pm #10012

[anonymous]

@lich2king

Tortoise SVN sounds like an interesting novel approach to work around the problem for Microsoft Windows-based installs. Though, the security risks might give me the heebie-jeebies 🙂 Tortoise SVN have probably thought through all that.

May 22, 2023 at 1:53 pm #10013

[anonymous]

tortoise svn is the client. for server I use visual svn https://www.visualsvn.com/support/topic/00132/#:~:text=VisualSVN%20Server%20uses%20industry%2Dstandard,algorithms%20to%20protect%20the%20backups.

Visual svn can be installed on a windows computer, I use it with windows server.

May 22, 2023 at 2:53 pm #10016

[anonymous]

Thank you folks for your kind answers, I’m gonna give a look to tortoise!