2013/6/7 Urs Liska <u...@openlilylib.org>:
> Am 07.06.2013 08:22, schrieb Janek Warchoł:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 2013/6/6 Urs Liska <u...@openlilylib.org>:
>>>
>>> Am 06.06.2013 19:00, schrieb Urs Liska:
>>>>
>>>> I can try that with an arbitrary iframe page on my server.
>>>
>>> You can have a look at http://test.ursliska.de/test.html
>>> It works partially:
>>> - One can see everything and navigate the blog.
>>> - One can post comments
>>> - What does not work (for admins) is to edit comments or posts or enter
>>> the
>>> admin area at all
>>> - The address bar always shows the above address.
>>>
>>> (- a minor issue is that I don't know how to define the iframe yet. I had
>>> to
>>> manually set a height in pixels, which obviously isn't good.)
>>
>> Thanks for testing this, Urs.
>> I think that's not good enough for our purposes (unless it is possible
>> to make the address bar behave as if the iframe was "the real thing").
>>   People will notice that something's wrong and the blog will look
>> unprofessional.
>
> Maybe one could embed the iframe as a noticeable window. I.e. make a header
> bar that says: "Here you can look at our blog, but you can also go to ...
> (navigation will easily bring you back to lilypond.org)".
>
> But I have yet another idea that could be elegant if the technical
> requirements are met.
>
> If the server hosting lilypond.org is capable of running WordPress, i.e. has
> - PHP >= 5.2.4
> - MySQL >= 5.0
> available, we could:
> - Create a /blog directory at the top level of the website
> - Ensure that this directory isn't touched when updating the website content
> - Install WordPress there
>   This is a one-time action of a few minutes, and
>   the maintainer of the blog doesn't need any admin access to the server
> later
>
> This way the blog would be technically integrated into lilypond.org (i.e.
> wrt search engines)
> but could be maintained independently.

Maybe i don't understand something, but haven't we already rejected
this solution because it means having dynamic content which can lead
to problems (and we want lilypond.org to be perfectly safe)?

From an email that Graham sent me privately:

2013/6/5 Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca>:
> Running a server with dynamic content is not trivial.  Just look
> at how often lilynet.net went down over the years, or had spam
> problems, etc.  I *am* defending lilypond.org from that type of
> problem.  If lilypond caused a problem, then the company would be
> entirely justified in not allowing us to host stuff there, which
> would then require that we found an alternate host.  If we started
> paying for commercial hosting, we'd likely be looking at hundreds
> of euros per year (including hosting the binaries).  That would
> then require some sort of non-profit organization, and setting up
> such a thing would suck up even more admin time.

Janek

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