Developer Documentation: Web-site Hosting

UniLang can offer free web-site hosting, and be a home for small language education projects that share our philosophy of free and open language learning.

Hosting your language project at UniLang also means that there is an opportunity to use various of the systems and services available on our site directly from your own website. If you want, you can seamlessly integrate your entire site into the UniLang framework, including usage of our language and localisation system for website translations, Universal Language Resource system for language data, Resource Index for easy access.

Features:

• Optional subdomain projectname.unilang.org
• PHP 5 (running on Apache2)
• Mysql 5
• Possible integration with UniLang systems and services
  • Templating System - The phpbb3 framework upon which we build offers a strong templating system
  • Member System - There already is a user database with many users, so if desired users can automatically log in on your site and make use of authenticated sessions
  • Language System - Definitions and functions for many languages
  • Localisation System - Easily make your site multilingual and let UniLang member translate
  • Universal Language Resource system - API for accessing language resource data such as wordlists, phrasebooks, stories
  • Resource Index - API for accessing an index of all resources
• File access through CVS (no FTP or SSH)
• No hard quota on disk-usage, bandwidth, and system resources (but fair-use policy)

We do not charge anything, but we do require that language projects share our free and open philosophy and license their work under an open license. We recommend our own UniLang Public License, or similar licenses, such as GNU Free Documentation License, and ShareAlike Creative Commons licenses. Any code will be definition be open source as well.

This naturally implies that the hosted website has to be entirely non-commercial, no profit may be made and no ads may show on the site.