Hi
You can allow members to create their own blog, but not with the url you suggest.
The format would be [mydomain.com/blog6.php] or [mydomain.com/fred.php]

Install the blog and play around, learn about stub files to change the blog6.php to fred.php or use a directory called [fred] with an index file.

For your example you will have to have access to your domain name [mydomain.com] to create sub-domains, you can then direct [fred.mydomain.com] to [mydomain.com/fred]

@dsimms what version of b2evo are you looking at?

In v5 there is a very clear option in user settings to allow uses to create their own blog(s).

I am not sure the urls will be subdomains out of the box, but we can make that happen with just a little more code ;) we'll look into it.

I am not sure. I was getting ready to delete it, then I saw replies here....
I will have to look and see, but I downloaded what it let me download....

I would like to offer free hosting, and free blog using subdomains.
I am not sure why it would not work as if a subdomain is not avail
then it would just say sub-domain is not available....

So if someone signs up for abc.domain.com (hosting page) then someone
trying to signup for abc.domain.com for the blog would not be able to do so....

If someone had a blog called abc.domain.com then someone signing
up for a free host would not be able to choose abc.domain.com as the
subdomain would not be available in either of the above cases....

Any reason on why this could not be done?

I plan on using iPanel for the hosting part of it....

if not, I guess I could do it this way....

Blog: domain.com/memberblog

Host: abc.domain.com

What do you guys think?

@fplanque wrote earlier:

@dsimms what version of b2evo are you looking at?

In v5 there is a very clear option in user settings to allow uses to create their own blog(s).

I am not sure the urls will be subdomains out of the box, but we can make that happen with just a little more code ;) we'll look into it.

I don't know iPanel, it might require a little custom coding for interfacing but I see no reason why it could't be done :)

Ok. I got beta setup...

I am still at a loss on users being able to create their own blogs....
I have been running option to option, and I just cant seem to
find anything on the subject of allowing people to create their own...

The blog keeps defaulting to the default blog....

I do not think I can do much more unless someone is willing to help out....

The setting is in the user groups settings:
http://b2evolution.net/man/back-office-reference/managing-users/managing-user-groups/editing-user-groups/blogging-permissions

Regarding automatic display of each user blog based on the URL of the blog, try to pipe everything through index_multi.php insteaod fo index.php or blog1.php.