From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 9 21:07:33 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B13F16A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 21:07:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from Shenton.org (23.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 61DA443D1D for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 21:07:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@Shenton.Org) Received: (qmail 31893 invoked by uid 1001); 9 Feb 2005 21:07:29 -0000 From: Chris Shenton To: FreeBSD Questions References: <20050208230206.GA88486@keyslapper.net> <20050209171513.GA18088@keyslapper.net> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 16:07:29 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20050209171513.GA18088@keyslapper.net> (Louis LeBlanc's message of "Wed, 9 Feb 2005 12:15:14 -0500") Message-ID: <86sm45jvce.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 Subject: Re: maybe slightly OT - web content management kits X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:07:33 -0000 Louis LeBlanc writes: >> I'm trying to find a good website management system. Content >> management. I'm running Apache 2.0 with (among others) mod_perl2, (perl >> 5.8.6) and Jakarta Tomcat 5.0. > http://www.opensourcecms.com/ > I'm probably going to try a few out, since there's only a couple in the > ports. Among my top candidates are Mambo, geeklog (in ports), drupal > (also in ports), opencms, Etomite, and Magnolia. While I'm no expert on it, I think Plone may be the most well thought out and fully-featured CMS out there; it also looks real nice, right out of the box, and is fully buzzword-compliant :-). It runs on top of Zope, so there are lots of ways to extend functionality. There are also a bunch of add-on Products which can do all sorts of stuff, from Wikis to PhotoAlbums. Zope's written in Python, so it would not be leveraging your Java and Perl stuff. I front mine with Apache but it's not required to do so. Plone's in ports. There are now three books on Plone which should help you if you want to go this way; McKay's is available online if you want to take a look at what you can do with plone. http://plone.org/ http://docs.neuroinf.de/PloneBook If you want to stay on the Java side, you could check out Jakarta Slide, which calls itself a "low-level content management framework". But that does sound a bit low-level to me. I'm not generally keen on large Perl and PHP suites, even though I've written some myself. Probably just my own phobias. There's another well-featured CMS I've read about -- but haven't played with -- called Bricolage. It's in Perl IIRC.