How to create a new tenant without providing admin username & password

[hieucd04]

I want to create a new tenant to host a static website (Html, CSS & JS files only).
I don't need admin user and database. However, when creating a new tenant (either from UI or from code) I couldn't find anyway to skip the providing database and admin username/password step.

Is there anyway to create a new tenant without having to provide admin username/password and database?

[hishamco]

There's an AutoSetup feature, but I don't think you can skip providing a database information, coz almost the things are saved into it, including users, settings, content and much more

You can create a file-based database (SQLite) to let OC save the required information, then you can start building your static website. In this case many of the OC feature will be useless but it should work

[hishamco]

The admin used by the administrator, you can change the admin URL prefix instead of disable it. Could you please let me know what's the benifit for using OC if the case is creating a static site without any sort of integration from OC?!!

[hieucd04]

The application I'm developing has many tenants in it.
Some tenants fully utilize OC. But some others don't.

In this very specific case, I'm tasked with adding Storybook to the application. And the storybook has to be under a separate hostname (eg: storybook.mydomain.com). Since storybook is just a static website, there is no need for admin and db.

[hishamco]

In this case you may need to customize the setup screen or create a new recipe for static site. Frankly I didn't try it but let us hear the feedback from the others

[ns8482e]

IMO to serve static pages unique to tenant you still need to have admin

[hieucd04]

How come I need an admin while there are (from my point of view) nothing to administer?
Storybook website is auto-generated. So, the only work I can think of is deployment which is handled by our CI/CD pipeline.

[ns8482e]

Using orchard core cms, ootb Tenant can be initialized using setup / auto setup feature - this requires username and password as this will setup admin user that required by admin module

you can create your own setup module that would setup tenant without users/admin module

[hieucd04]

Good idea!!!
This might be a long term solution as my team is planning to have considerable amount of "admin-less" tenants (eg: Rest API tenants)
I will investigate it further when I have time. Thank you for the idea 😄