Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 15:25:52 +0100 From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net> To: Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which CMS to use for small website depolyed on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <54DFB60E1A2BA428C63AF54E@palle.girgensohn.se> In-Reply-To: <86wtuzo98q.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> References: <31E01F7BFC295D702DB3798A@palle.girgensohn.se> <86wtuzo98q.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org>
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--On torsdag, december 30, 2004 14.51.17 -0500 Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> wrote: > Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net> writes: > >> A bit off-topic... I'm mailing this list to check if there are any >> suggestions for a content management system for a rather small web site, >> that is will be deployed on a FreeBSD web server. Open Source or >> Commercial doesn't matter. Optimally, it will exist in the ports >> collection already. If not, I'll port it and put into the tree :-) >> >> It is not going to be a lot of modifications to the web site, no wikis >> or blogs, just a regular web site for an Opera Academy. The customer >> wants a webbrowser GUI for editing pages, and expects a CMS to manage >> the pages. > > Plone can do that out of the box; the browser-based editor is an > add-on "product" called Epoz. Both are in ports. Looks cool. Zope, that means I can't run apache, at least on the same IP#... I guess I can always have yet another IP# alias for the machine... running on a different port than 80 is out ot the question, of course... > I found getting Plone running, the Zope app server really, was a bit > confusing: what do you do after you do the "make install clean" from > ports? There are now three books on Plone which should help (authors: > McKay, Meloni, Cooper). Any suggestions between these books? > If you go this route and get stuck, somewhere I ahve some text notes > on what I needed to do that I could send you. After that, it's up to > you. I'm fairly new to it myself but am happily using it -- as you > describe, with Epoz -- for taking techie notes and such, nothing > complex. It does understand 'workflow', like oen author creates > content, then submits it to a site maintainer for approval before it > gets published to the world; and you can revert a piece of content if > it got published wrongly. Very nice. Sounds good! > Plone may be a lot bigger than you need, since it does have lots of > features and add in products like wiki, blog, photo albums, etc. But > it should do what you want, without worrying about PHPBB-type holes :-) Yep, it sounds bigger than my needs, but if I can just not use the blogs and stuff, I'm fine. Thanks for you input! /Palle
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