Save this widget in either the plugins or the systemplugins directory to display a list of all blogs in the sidebar. Make sure you remove the “.txt” extension – it needs to be simply “.php”.

28-Aug-06: Updated .htaccess code.

I was looking for a way to allow multiple blogs sharing the same installation. The setup I was looking for needed to have:

1. The blog software installed in it’s own directory. Cluttering the root up with files is simply not a good idea. Separation of Concerns is a good thing at all levels.
2. Have users access their blogs using nice memorable URL, and to have links within the blog use a clean URL format. Something like username.domain.com is friendly. This is not friendly: username.blogs.domain.com.
3. I wanted to use other software on this domain, so I did not want to use or set a document root. Doing this pretty much prevents any other software being installed at the root level on that domain.