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+ +

Example bash script (creates multiple shaarli instances and generates an HTML index of them)

+
#!/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
+
+for account in $accounts; do
+    if [ -d "$shaarli_base_dir/$account" ];
+    then echo "[info] account $account already exists, skipping";
+    else echo "[info] creating new account $account ..."; git clone --quiet "$shaarli_repo_url" -b "$ref" "$shaarli_base_dir/$account"; fi
+done
+
+#generate html index of shaarlis
+htmlhead='<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
+<!-- Minimal html template thanks to http://www.sitepoint.com/a-minimal-html-document/ -->
+<html lang="en">
+    <head>
+        <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
+        <title>My Shaarli farm</title>
+        <style>body {font-family: "Open Sans"}</style>
+    </head>
+    <body>
+    <div>
+    <h1>My Shaarli farm</h1>
+    <ul style="list-style-type: none;">'
+
+accountlinks=''
+
+htmlfooter='
+    </ul>
+    </div>
+    </body>
+</html>'    
+
+
+
+for account in $accounts; do accountlinks="$accountlinks\n<li><a href=\"$account\">$account</a></li>"; done
+if [ -d "$shaarli_base_dir/index.html" ]; then echo "[removing old index.html]"; rm "$shaarli_base_dir/index.html" ]; fi
+echo "[info] generating new index of shaarlis"
+echo -e "$htmlhead $accountlinks $htmlfooter" > "$shaarli_base_dir/index.html"
+echo '[info] done.'
+echo "[info] list of accounts: $accounts"
+echo "[info] contents of $shaarli_base_dir:"
+tree -a -L 1 "$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

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