# Create and serve multiple Shaarlis (farm)

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[](.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='<!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[](.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