Topic: Anyone successfully install ez publish?

[Greg Brooks]

Hi all... looking for anyone who's had experience installing ez publish (http://developer.ez.no) or a similarly full-featured CMS.

Related question: Installation of ez publish requires recompiling PHP (the system uses a fairly arcane set of PHP features) and


Soooo... related questions:

* Can PHP be safely recompiled without messing up E-smith?
* Are ez publish RPMs pre-compiled for Debian, Mandrake, Red Hat or Suse likely to work?
* Are ImageMagick, mod_php and mod_rewrite available on a standard e-smith install? If not, will I hose my system by trying to install them?

Many thanks,
Greg

[rob]

ezcontents (www.visualshapers.com) is similar but not as many modules. Install on sme is a breeze - let me know if you want a how to.

[Paul T.C.Fung]

I have work on both CMS, just follow the install instruction, creat the DB in MySQL and all done.

Both of them are quit good, but both of them have some bug in it, you have to de-Bug them before you can get into production.

Also, both of them do not have the i18n meta correctly setup (Where most of the PHP software have the same mistake..... cause a lot of problems when using in a non-"ISO8859-1" content display. (Japanese, Chinese, ......)

I rather like ezContents that support Frame and non-Frame, where the content can be display in a more "Rich" format.  But the Module function of it is not really a very good one.  Also, there are many "Hidden" in the code, very funny to look into !!

Best Regards,

Paul T.C.Fung

[Greg Brooks]

Rob and Paul, thanks!

I'm going to give ezcontents a try this weekend and see how it works. Paul, can you give me an idea of how much debugging you had to do in order to get ez publish to run? (Their documentation makes it sound like there is no way it will run without a custom complie of PHP.)

Many thanks!
Greg

[Roger Weldon]

Yes, please! Thank you very much!

Can you please post you HOWTO or your link to the HOWTO!!

Rog.

[rob]

www.winux.co.nz/ez-howto.htm

enjoy

[Greg Brooks]

Got EZ contents running using rob's Most Excellent HOWTO -- many thanks!

One last call for any who haven't chimed in: Anyone got a HOWTO for ez publish?

(One of the GREAT things about e-smith is that the ibays make it wicked-simple to install multiple CMS platforms and test 'em out easily.

Thanks,
G.

[rob]

Greg Brooks wrote:

> (One of the GREAT things about e-smith is that the ibays make
> it wicked-simple to install multiple CMS platforms and test
> 'em out easily.

Just remember that ezcontents and similar create mysql processes that will consume resources

ps -aux will show your running processes

remember to drop the databases once you have done playing

Also

If you have problems modifying ezcontents chown admin:shared all files - logon to your network as admin before logging onto ezContents as admin

also - chmod 777 the contentimage directory

howto has been updated

rob