From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 19 12:05:48 2004 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 94AE316A4CE for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 12:05:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from therub.org (pantheon-ws-13.direct.hickorytech.net [216.114.200.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F5E243D41 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 12:05:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drue@therub.org) Received: from drue by therub.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B4QFV-0000bo-00; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 14:05:45 -0600 Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 14:05:45 -0600 To: "Scott I. Remick" Message-ID: <20040319200545.GC652@therub.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: Dan Rue cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CMS on FreeBSD 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: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 20:05:48 -0000 On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 01:53:04PM -0500, Scott I. Remick wrote: > I'm thinking about setting up a FreeBSD-based CMS/intranet and wanted to > know what other people were doing. > > I have a tiny bit of experience with PHP-Nuke because my webhost uses it. > Although I have no real complaints about it, I am not wedded to it. > > PHP-Nuke is in ports and was recently upgraded to 6.9 after stagnating at > 6.0 for a long time. This makes me concerned that if I invested in it, and > the need for an update came, I might be SOL for a while due to lack of a > maintainer. As it is right now, it is marked FORBIDDEN due to a > vulnerability with versions below 7.1. > > Also, there seems to be a lot of hatred towards PHP-Nuke. I don't claim to > understand it, but I can accept they might know something I don't. I do > know that PHP is rather easy for me to work with, as I've tweaked many > pages on my hosted site. I am also not turned away by the fact that > PHP-Nuke depends on MySQL as I have used it with Bugzilla and it doesn't > scare me. > > Looking at other options, there comes Postnuke. Seems a pretty-popular > close-relation to PHP-Nuke, however the version in ports seems 2+ years > old. So there is the maintainership issue again. And a lot of people hate > BOTH *Nukes, for perhaps good reasons I don't totally grasp, so there's > that too. > > Diverging a bit, I noticed Drupal. Currently in ports but broken. Umm.. I don't know what other people think about this - but I really never run any PHP stuff from ports. It is easier, imo, to just download the tgz and unzip it to the directory you want it in. Since there's no compiling, usually very little setup, it's just _easier_ and gives you more control if you just do it yourself. Of course, the cruddy thing about that is updating. Therefore, the reason why I think the cms' in ports are old is because most people don't port install them - it's just not worth it. Just follow the instructions that come with the PHP app - usually you'll have to create a database in mysql for it to use. The instructions are usually really good with that stuff. As far as which cms to use, I'm currently undecided as well. My boss really likes drupal, and forces me to use it :) Check out opensourcecms.com - they showcase dozens of php cms' and let you try them out. Good Luck - Dan