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How do I run multiple FAQs with one installation?

First, be sure this is really what you want. If the topics are at all related, you should probably have them as separate categories under a single FAQ. The advantage to sharing a single FAQ is that a single search can check all of the related topics, and users only need to establish a single password to edit any of the items in any of the FAQs.

Install the Perl modules once.

Make as many copies of the CGI stub as you want separate FAQs, and make sure each has its own meta directory. You can do that two ways: First, you can have one cgi-bin directory with n CGI stubs, and change the meta string ('fom-meta/') inside each stub:

 cgi-bin/fom1.pl points to fom-meta1/
 cgi-bin/fom2.pl points to fom-meta2/ ...

Alternatively, you can make n separate directories, each with an identical CGI stub. This approach is probably easier to manage:

 cgi-bin/fom1/fom.pl points to fom-meta/ (cgi-bin/fom1/fom-meta/)
 cgi-bin/fom2/fom.pl points to fom-meta/ (cgi-bin/fom2/fom-meta/) ...

Once you have set up the CGI stubs, access each in turn to install it. I recommend NOT trying to copy meta/config files among installations, as the config files store the meta dir path and such.

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