Topic: Mambo Newsfeed installation on SME

[jan]

Hello,

I recently found an interesting post here on a PHP based content management system called Mambo, right here on e-smith.org forum. Very interesting! http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=13377.msg50621#msg50621

I installed it on my primary iBay of my sme 5.1.2. and it works fine. I have two questions though:

1. Intro: I run a server-only setup behind a hardware router/firewall. I intend to use
            mambo only as an internal page but I seem to be able to use https to
            access it. I use https for webmail so closing the port seems not to be an
           option.
   Q:     How do I disable outside access to my primary iBay through https without
           doing the same to my webmail page?

2. Intro: In Mambo there is a 'newsfeed' option that will aperently get news items
            of the internet and display them on the page. I tried installing it using the  
            info found with the Mambo package itself but it failed to install. This, I
            think has to do with either SME's directory setup and/or missing
            packages.
  Q:      Has anyone succesfully installed Mambo AND the newsfeed feature? If so
            I'd really like to know how this was achieved.

Any help is very much apreciated.

with regards,

Jan

[Dan Brown]

Re: question 1, why would you want to?  It doesn't hurt anything, does it?  Unless your machine is very CPU-bound, there's no reason that I can think of to even worry about this.  Unfortunately, there's no way I know of within the e-smith framework to turn SSL off for a particular directory.

[jan]

Q:  "why would you want to?"
Re: I have an intranet page which will be for private consumption only, its running on the SME box and is kept up to date with Mambo. I also have an external page hosted by my ISP with public content depending on my experience with Mambo may also be hosted using this system. The reason for external hosting on my ISP is that I had/have no idea how much bandwidth I would be using surfing and hosting so I outsourced what I don't use locally.