#Create and serve multiple Shaarlis (farm)
Example bash script (creates multiple shaarli instances and generates an HTML index of them)
```bash
#!/bin/bash
set -o errexit
set -o nounset
#config
shaarli_base_dir='/var/www/shaarli'
accounts='bob john whatever username'
shaarli_repo_url='https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli'
ref="master"
#clone multiple shaarli instances
if [ ! -d "$shaarli_base_dir" ]; then mkdir "$shaarli_base_dir"; fi[](.html)
for account in $accounts; do
if [ -d "$shaarli_base_dir/$account" ];[](.html)
then echo "[info] account $account already exists, skipping";[](.html)
else echo "[info] creating new account $account ..."; git clone --quiet "$shaarli_repo_url" -b "$ref" "$shaarli_base_dir/$account"; fi[](.html)
done
#generate html index of shaarlis
htmlhead='
My Shaarli farm
My Shaarli farm
'
accountlinks=''
htmlfooter='
'
for account in $accounts; do accountlinks="$accountlinks\n$account"; done
if [ -d "$shaarli_base_dir/index.html" ]; then echo "[removing old index.html]"; rm "$shaarli_base_dir/index.html" ]; fi[](.html)
echo "[info] generating new index of shaarlis"[](.html)
echo -e "$htmlhead $accountlinks $htmlfooter" > "$shaarli_base_dir/index.html"
echo '[info] done.'[](.html)
echo "[info] list of accounts: $accounts"[](.html)
echo "[info] contents of $shaarli_base_dir:"[](.html)
tree -a -L 1 "$shaarli_base_dir"
```
This script just serves as an example. More precise or complex (applying custom configuration, etc) automation is possible using configuration management software like [Ansible](https://www.ansible.com/)[](.html)