From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 30 19:51:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B38C716A4CF for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:51:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from Shenton.org (23.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 83E3343D1D for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:51:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@Shenton.Org) Received: (qmail 55793 invoked by uid 1001); 30 Dec 2004 19:51:18 -0000 From: Chris Shenton To: Palle Girgensohn References: <31E01F7BFC295D702DB3798A@palle.girgensohn.se> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:51:17 -0500 In-Reply-To: <31E01F7BFC295D702DB3798A@palle.girgensohn.se> (Palle Girgensohn's message of "Wed, 29 Dec 2004 02:07:27 +0100") Message-ID: <86wtuzo98q.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which CMS to use for small website depolyed on FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:51:20 -0000 Palle Girgensohn 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. 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). 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. 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 :-)