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need campus blog solution

Created by Scott Crevier (St. Norbert College) on July 15, 2005
I'm looking for a good blog solution for use by students, faculty and staff. It's got to run on Linux with Apache. Other positives would include MySQL, Perl, PHP.

An important component we'll need is LDAP authentication. Or, I already have my instance of Apache using LDAP for its standard HTTP authentication, so if the blog solution supports HTTP authentication, but not LDAP specifically, that would be fine.

I've been looking at WordPress. I'm wondering if there are others I should be checking out.
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Re: need campus blog solution
Submitted by Matt Pasiewicz (EDUCAUSE) on July 15, 2005 - 6:37am.
You might want to check out Drupal ...
http://www.drupal.org
Re: need campus blog solution
Submitted by D'Arcy Norman (University of Calgary) on July 15, 2005 - 6:41am.
I started a wiki page a while back to help with making just such a decision.

http://wiki.ucalgary.ca/page/MultiUserWeblogComparison

I went with Drupal for weblogs.ucalgary.ca if that helps at all...
Re: need campus blog solution
Submitted by Laura Blankenship (Bryn Mawr College) on July 15, 2005 - 7:13am.
We looked at Drupal and are still considering it and we are also looking at ELGG.
Re: need campus blog solution
Submitted by Jeremy Smith (Case Western Reserve University) on July 15, 2005 - 8:09am.
We use Movable Type (http://blog.case.edu). Though, I've seen some impressive setups done via Drupal.
Re: need campus blog solution
Submitted by D'Arcy Norman (University of Calgary) on July 15, 2005 - 9:35am.
ELGG was a close second place when we went with Drupal, and ELGG has come a long way since then. Both are definitely worth a close look.
Re: need campus blog solution
Submitted by Cole W. Camplese (The Pennsylvania State University) on July 15, 2005 - 10:06am.
We've been using Drupal with solid success for two multi user blogging situations ... the first is for my Institute, blogs@si ( http://si.ist.psu.edu/blogs )and the other is for a 5 week academic program I am running, blogs@pgist ( ttp://si.ist.psu.edu/blogs ). It works very well for both.
Re: need campus blog solution
Submitted by Jeremy Hunsinger (Virginia Tech) on July 15, 2005 - 12:38pm.
how about http://snipsnap.org ? it has all of your features i think. it is java. it is scalable... for me the minor problem is the java.... if it was ruby on rails or php, i could fiddle with it, but as it is, i dunno.
Re: need campus blog solution
Submitted by Scott Crevier (St. Norbert College) on July 18, 2005 - 12:03am.
Thanks tons for the good feedback. I'll definitely look at each of these suggestions, especially Drupal. I had heard of Drupal but only considered it as a standard CMS (which we're already OK on), and didn't realize that it worked well as a blog program.
Re: need campus blog solution
Submitted by Scott Crevier (St. Norbert College) on July 18, 2005 - 6:55am.
I've installed Drupal. Now trying to get standard HTTP authentication working. If anyone has any experience with this, check out this forum post:

http://drupal.org/node/26977
 
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