Sounds like a cms app for which there was a recent post on the list
for.

> Radiant is probably the best known. AdvaCMS looks quite promising, but
> seems a bit immature at the moment.  There's also BrowserCMS

One that I like is Wagn: http://www.wagn.org/wagn/Introduction

It has a unique card like approach to cms.

Does sound like a project you might be able to build yourself - I
don't know if any of the cms's mentioned will let you serve uploaded
html pages. But you might be able to extend one to do it.


On Sep 20, 3:29 am, Greg Hauptmann <greg.hauptmann.r...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just wondering whether there is an existing open source Ruby on Rails
> app that would be a good starting point for doing this:
>
> * want a backend web application/service that has an API to allow a
> desktop client application to programmatically upload complete web
> pages (HTML & images that the HTML links to) to be hosted
> * the web application API would have to support (a) create account for
> new user, (b) upload / modify / delete web pages for specified user
> * part of creating the account for user would be to set them up with a
> username/password, as the content needs to be private (user will need
> username/password to access)
> * so each of the accounts (setup with a user password) are all
> separate with no linkages - it's just a service that will allow
> multiple users to have their own HTML/images hosted, and the point
> being that they won't manually set this up themselves, but rather the
> clientside application will have the smarts to do this, therefore
> requires the back-end web application/service to provide the API
>
> Any existing open source apps sound like they might fit these
> requirements, RoR blog app, or RoR Wiki app or something?  (but it
> needs the programmatic APIs)
>
> I guess the fallback for me would be to develop a website from the
> ground up to do this (e.g. Ruby on Rails), but it would be nice to
> have something as a starting point.
>
> Thanks
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