[ubuntu-uk] Options for website login

[Dave Rice]

On 30 Aug 2014 12:12, "Gareth France" <gareth.france at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thanks to everyone for their suggestions owncloud is a perfect solution.
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> On 30 Aug 2014 09:46, "Dave Rice" <dave at ricey.co.uk> wrote:
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>> On 30 Aug 2014 09:41, "Gareth France" <gareth.france at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Nowhere near user friendly enough I'm afraid.
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>> > On 30/08/14 09:39, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote:
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>> >> FTP no good to you?
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>> >> Grant
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>> >> On 30 Aug 2014 09:35, "Gareth France" <gareth.france at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> >>> On 30/08/14 09:29, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote:
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>> >>>> On 30 Aug 2014 09:26, "Gareth France" <gareth.france at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> >>>> > I have looked at dropbox, it is more expensive than my hosting
for my website which could do this at no extra cost. It also suggests I
would have to pay an additional £11 a month for each person I wanted to
access it. This is not viable. What I need is a system that can be
installed in my existing webspace.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> How much data are you planning on giving people access to? Dropbox
gives you 2GB of space for free, and Google Drive gives you 15GB for free.
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>> >>>> Grant
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>> >>> It would be small text files, accruing at a rate of 4 or 5 per year
for each user but many users. I would prefer to have something which could
be properly branded for my business rather than some cloud storage company.
I'll look into how I might do this with wordpress or drupal. I have read of
issues keeping the files private in Drupal though.
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>> WordPress could be an option with a plugin.
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>> https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-files/
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>> This is an example that seems to fit your bill. I haven't used it but
there are a few out there it seems.
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>> So, you would get a full website/blogging system with the additional
functionality that you need ready for branding. All for free, and open
source ;)
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It is a fab bit of software :)

Good luck,

Dave
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