Topic: CMS

[bmann]

My favourite is Drupal. It has many integrated features, including the ability for every registered member to have their own blog.

I use it to run my site (see signature) and have also written a how-to for installing Drupal on e-smith.

[schriver]

Is there anyone there know where I can find a how-to to installing Typo3 3.6.2 on a SME 6.0.1.

I have tried for some time now and can’t get it to work. When I try to access the Typo3 site on my server I get the error Access Denied. I think that it has something to do with the FollowSymLinks on the apache configuration file.  

I hope that someone can help.

[aussie]

I hesitated a bit before trying to install Typo3 - I read a couple of postings stating that it was difficult....

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.
Can somebody tell me where Imagemagic is installed?
JensK

Hi there JensK!

I too tried to get typo3 running and hit the same wall.
1. Would you be so kind as to details the template you  changed to include +FollowSymlink?
2. did you sort out Imagemagic?
TIA rob

[gzartman]

Jens,

Finding a good CMS isn't an easy task.  There are alot of them out there and it takes a fair bit of time to really look at them.  I think the first thing you need to decide is if you want a portal or a website.  This will narrow down your search alot.  If you are looking for a portal, Xoops (the CMS running contribs) is about one of the best I've seen and I've tried several of them.  It install in minutes on SME.

If, on the other hand, you are looking for a CMS to manage your website, then I'd suggest Mambo Open Source or Phpwebsite.  Of these two Mambo Open Source (MOS) is the easiest to install.  PHPwebsite requires a newer version of PHP than is running on SME.  

If I had to choose between the three of these, I'd pick Xoops in a minute.  It's very user friendly CMS with many modules and a great community.  You won't be disappointed.


Greg Zartman
Greg Zartman

[JensK]

I too tried to get typo3 running and hit the same wall.
1. Would you be so kind as to details the template you  changed to include +FollowSymlink?
2. did you sort out Imagemagic?
TIA rob

Hi Rob.
For other reasons I had to reinstall my testserver with the Typo3 installation. As I didn't get the Typo3 running  i production I didn't document the installation. As I remember it the follow symlinks was put into custom templates etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf/85DefaultAccess.
The other way was to put it into a template for the specific ibay.

My major problem was not the followsymlinks but getting access to upload images and getting imagemagick to work.

It is a pity that Typo3 is handdicapped with such technical barriers. To me it seems like the king of CMS's. I have tested it under Windows and it looks like to a localcommunity site like the one I try to run this is the superior CMS.

I know there are many CMS's out there but I have seen no other with as many different features and with as neat user selfmaintainance and distributed editor facilities as Typo3. There is even a LDAP userdb interface.

I devote my spare time to help computer illiterate people in my community to be able to do safe computing and communication. The downside of this is that I do not have the spare time to solve all the technical issues in cases like this.

In the meantime our community site still relies on good old HMTL editors and the spare time of the webmaster (me).

If somebody could/would make an e-smith Typo3 RPM he or she would qualify to be permanent item in my prayers for a month or two.

[vpmysli]

I too tried to get typo3 running and hit the same wall.
1. Would you be so kind as to details the template you changed to include +FollowSymlink?
2. did you sort out Imagemagic?

Instead of writing I'll add the ease one:
http://www.parkvej.dk/Using_SME_for_TYPO3__CMS.14.0.html

The ImageMagick is in one of the RPM's (please note that I just gathered the rpm's using different posts here)

The FollowSymLinks is at the bottom of the page.

/Peder

[arne]

I'm using Guppy at the moment. I will recomend that. It's a "PHPlight" that does not need any database. Works rather nice for "easy use"
http://www.freeguppy.org

[aussie]

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

I downloaded the test & src:
you can choose to download an empty filesset, the quickinstall (newcomers) or testsite.
In all 3 cases you need to also download the source.

The install notes for these are quite clear, but after you must

- in typo3/install/index.php # the line starting with die("In the main...

- add the text '+FollowSymlink' to the 'Option' line in the ibay section for where youve put your website, of the file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

- instal Imagemagick (typo3 recommend the old 4.2.9 version so I went with that!), by go to typo3.sunsite.dk/software/linux;
  download the file onto you sme box;
  cd /usr/local; tar xvzf imagemagick-4.2.9.tar.gz

you should now be able to access Typo3 and get
your database setup (I had a password problem here, and in fixing it via myPhpAdmin, stuffed my access to myPhpAdmin - ce la guerre!).

Typo3 is BIG, and it seems importnat to run the Install Tool... (this very clever tool, seems typical of the quality of typo3)

1. Basic Configutation:

- Freetype2 is in use with SME, so 72 must be changed to 96 in the configuration [GFX][TTFdpi]  - vi typo3/localconf.php to do this, or better still Ive found it in #4 below!

-ImageMagick is located other than where typo3 expects it:  in the Check this path for ImageMagick installation, enter /usr/local/imagemagick-4.2.9/bin/
(do not check the LZW box), then SEND

- at the end of the page UPDATE LOCALCONF.PHP (or your changes do not stick)

2. Database Analyser worked ok for me.

3. Image Processing: all tests FAILED initially, but if you have done the above they should now all work!
(hey aint this install-test-tool COOL!)

4. All configuration

- [GFX][thumbnails_png] = 1   I prefer png to gif

- check im_path is correct
 
- [GFX][TTFdpi] = 96

- you may want to alter the ddmmyy format

- at the end WRITE TO LOCALCONF.PHP obviously.


I then ran the frontend (in a new window) from the link at the end of all the above pages.

All of the test pages now work for me (only the last one did from the out-of-the-box install!)

Any add-ons to these notes pls let me know:
I will clean them up into a how-to.
regards   Rob

[JensK]

Any add-ons to these notes pls let me know:
I will clean them up into a how-to.
regards   Rob

Hi Rob.
I tried the install as you described and it works. I installed the 3.6.2 version of Typo3.

What I did different is that I prior to installing typo3 had installed:

e-smith-htaccess-1.1-2.noarch.rpm
ImageMagick-5.4.3.11-1.i386.rpm
libungif-4.1.0-10.i386.rpm
libtiff-3.5.7-1.i386.rpm
libpng-1.2.5-3.i386.rpm
bzip2-1.0.2-2.i386.rpm
freetype-2.0.1-1.i386.rpm
freetype-devel-2.0.1-1.i386.rpm
XFree86-libs-4.2.0-8.i386.rpm

I placed the Option +FollowSymlink in the .htaccess file in the html dir of the ibay.

I was even able to send a test mail from within the install tool event though the tool states that it couldn't find the sendmail deamon.

Thanks JensK

[aussie]

Any add-ons to these notes pls let me know:
I will clean them up into a how-to.
regards   Rob

Hi Rob.
I tried the install as you described and it works. I installed the 3.6.2 version of Typo3.

What I did different is that I prior to installing typo3 had installed:

e-smith-htaccess-1.1-2.noarch.rpm
ImageMagick-5.4.3.11-1.i386.rpm
libungif-4.1.0-10.i386.rpm
libtiff-3.5.7-1.i386.rpm
libpng-1.2.5-3.i386.rpm
bzip2-1.0.2-2.i386.rpm
freetype-2.0.1-1.i386.rpm
freetype-devel-2.0.1-1.i386.rpm
XFree86-libs-4.2.0-8.i386.rpm

I placed the Option +FollowSymlink in the .htaccess file in the html dir of the ibay.

I was even able to send a test mail from within the install tool event though the tool states that it couldn't find the sendmail deamon.

Thanks JensK

I am glad it all worked !
Email also worked for me even thought it said it could not find sendmail.
For others reading this I did not have to install JensK's list of rpm's (except Imagemagick per my notes)

[arne]

Guppy is a very "light and easy" CMS http://www.freeguppy.org

[cyberdude]

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

Hi!

I am in this moment trying to install typo3... but with no luck
what template did you modifyed ?
have you found a solution to ImageMagick ?

sincerly
Sonny

[oseano]

Hi, all

Anyone with step by step tutorials to install typo3 on SME 6.0 ?

I try to install with imagemagick download from http://www.parkvej.dk/

Using the install tools, after enter the default password joh316, change the password, directly go to all configuration, without basic configuration and database configuration.

Anyone please help,

Sean

[filk]

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.

Would you mind identifying which template you edited?  I know that mine and yours may be different but if you could be a little bit more specific that would help me a lot.

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

I followed a really old howto for Yappa that included the installation of Yappa.  It has worked from E-Smith 4.1 to SME 6.0 that I am currently running.  I have the rpms if you want them. Let me know.

Thanks

[edb]

I think Mambo is the best choice for ease of use. Very rich in features and I can't really see anything it cannot do. It is a great content management system!
I also understand that Mambo outperforms Plone by a landslide.

Ed