Topic: CMS

[Jens K]

I have been poking around a bit to look for a CMS system. I am running an e-smith 60b3 for our local residential club. I would like to have each resident to update their own webpages in an easy manner. Many of the residents are not used to other IT tools than the occasional wordprocessor and the webmail of e-smith.

I for myself would like to have many features such as forums. mediaservers, listservers, databases etc.

This is why I look for a CMS that are rich on features with many extentions and yet simple to use to produce simple webpages with some text and photos.

I have been looking on the different versions of nuke but can't figure out which to choose. I would appreciate input on experiences on using different CMS systems.

/Jensk

[Greg Allt]

check out plone at

http://www.plone.org/

there is a contribs created for it.

I haven't set up or tested yet but am doing so at this very moment.

It is looking pretty good to me

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[Greg Allt]

Have now installed plone on my server and it is working wonderfully.

Not much in the way of gotcha's.  Biggest one was finding the admin password after install.

Reading the .pdf documentation that accompanies it is a good idea.

My advice - grab the .rpm's and follow the howto. (Y)

Am placing the server in an old folks home and is providing the residents with their own internet access, email as well as a way to create their own webspace.

P.S. phase two involves installing a Linux Terminal server and with old donated equipment from local business supplying residents who don't have computers with their own.  The building is a new building and fully wired.  This stage will involved a few high school co-op students to setup the workstations and train the residents and give them help.

If anybody is interested, let me know and I will keep you posted!!!!!

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[Rien]

Hi Jens,

I'v installed plone v1.04 at my testserver. For my production server I want to wait voor version 2.x. Is is possible to install plone in an ibay f.i. an ibay named "plone" (http://www.domain.nl/plone) in stead of http://www.domain.nl:8080 ???

Thanks,

Rien

[JensK]

Hi Rien.
I installed Plone and it worked ok on sme 5.6. After my upgrade to 6.0 I could not get it to work again. I tried the upgrade to a newer PHP version with no positive result. Since I am no Linux shark I had no other option than to deinstall Plone and I tried PHPWebsite instead.

I tried PHPWebsite because I expected it would work ok since it was the system that was used by www.contribs.org. Now I se that contribs has moved on to xoops so I don't know what to do next.

I was really looking for at CMS to user for our local community SME server. It should support distributed user rights so that each community member could have his own set of webpages that he/she could update very easy -most are computer illiterates.

It should also have all the normal user facilities like forums, galleries, webpages, menusystem, linkpages and newspages to closed user groups.

I am still looking for the right CMS to use so if you get/have some experiences you will share I would be very pleased.

Regards Jens

[Rien]

Hi Jens,

I'm a newby on linux. I asked that question because I want to have an CMS which can be reached from the internet (an Ibay for safety reasons).

I installed plone 1.02 on a clean sme 6.0 final. I used the following rpm's:

• db4-4.0.14-14.i386.rpm
• Plone-1.0-2.2_1.i386.rpm
• python-2.2.1-17.i386.rpm

I used the following steps:

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1) Get these three files:

# wget http://bender-high.com/sme/plone/db4-4.0.14-14.i386.rpm
# wget http://bender-high.com/sme/plone/python-2.2.1-17.i386.rpm
# wget http://bender-high.com/sme/plone/Plone-1.0-2.2_1.i386.rpm

2) install RPMs:

# rpm -Uvh db4-4.0.14-14.i386.rpm python-2.2.1-17.i386.rpm
# rpm -Uvh Plone-1.0-2.2_1.i386.rpm

To start Plone:

# /etc/init.d/plone start

(Will restart on next reboot as well.)


To access plone:

http://SERVER_ADDRESS:8080

To admin Zope:

http://SERVER_ADDRESS:8080/manage

login as 'admin'.  password is 'plone'.

Because contribs.org uses Xoops, I installed that too (xoops-2.0.6RC.zip). I installed it in an ibay (just copy it to the htm directory). Before that I created the "Xoops-database" using the following commands:

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[root@mlkserver root]# mysql
mysql> CREATE DATABASE xoops;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON xoops.* TO xoops@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'adminpassword';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> quit


All standard modules works accept the "forum" and "download" module (see http://www.xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=16039&forum=19)

A module for Uploading documents (document managent) is not standard in Xoops (strange thing for an CMF, in plone it is integrated).


Regards Rien

[rob]

Hi,
If you are looking for a CMS to suit your particular purpose then you should visit this site.

http://www.opensourcecms.com

It lists dozens of open source CMS offerings and you can demo them all online.

Regards
Rob Thomson

[Anonymous]

Hi Rob,

Thanks, it is difficult to choose. Do you have experience with one them?

Regards Rien

[rob]

Rien

Not realy! I'm trying a few myself right now but I think I will settle for Mambo.
It seems to suit my needs best.

Regards
Rob Thomson

[JensK]

Hi Rob.
Could you tell me a little about why you think mambo suits your neds best? Maybee I could use it in my search for a good CMS.

I have tried opensourcecms.org. I pooked around a little but didn't have time enough to test all of the systems. Maybe i will get the time when i reach a week with to thursdays or so.
Regards Jens

[rob]

Jens,

My needs and yours are probably very different.
You just have to set out your priorities and try a few which seem to fit.
Have a look at some, download 5 or 6, put them into ibays and try them for size.

Regards
Rob Thomson

[tape]

Jens,

My needs and yours are probably very different.
You just have to set out your priorities and try a few which seem to fit.
Have a look at some, download 5 or 6, put them into ibays and try them for size.

Regards
Rob Thomson

if there is a need for user/grups with different rights so maybe Type3 coudl be the way. h

http://www.typo3.org

Have only tried on a clean Debian machine, but it works in an subdirectory so it also should work in an ibay.

hth
Anton

[JensK]

I hesitated a bit before trying to install Typo3 - I read a couple of postings stating that it was difficult. Then came the winter holliday in Denmark and it was a gray sky - and I thought that now was the time.

So I have installed Typo3 and now it is up and running. It looks like a great CMS package. There is different testsites to start up with and the documentation is extensive. There is even videos on how to do different things.

From www.typo3.org I have downloaded the quickinstall-3.5.0  and the typo3_src-3.5.0 tars and untarred them in an ibay.

At first I couldn't get it to work but then I realized that T3 is using symbolic links to chain the testsites and the sourcepackage together. I modified the e-smith custom template to include +FollowSymlink and now it is working.

Next step is to get T3 to see that I have installed ImageMagick. To do this I need to know where Imagemagick is installed under E-smith. I can see that there is some ImageMagick in /usr/lib but when I enter this path in the T3 configuration screen it states that there is no ImageMagick on the server.
Can somebody tell me where Imagemagic is installed?
JensK

[ninti]

Just a quick note ... Plone is built on Zope and Python, not PHP. Upgrading PHP won't affect Plone.

[deunan]

Hi Jens,

I used the following steps:

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To start Plone:

# /etc/init.d/plone start

(Will restart on next reboot as well.)


Regards Rien

Dearest all

I've installed Plone as per Rien's kind instructions.  I am using a plain vanilla 6.0f.  My problem is, I can't seem to have Plone to auto-start whenever the server reboots/restarts.  

Is there a config.sys/autoexec.bat equivalent file that I have to key-in those commands as per quoted above?  At least, please point me to the correct direction.

Sincere regards

Deunan
Very Linux newbie


PS - I know servers are not supposed to be rebooted often, but I have to allow power failures and such.