[HLUG] CMS suggestion - specific issue

[Paul Stenning]

Hi,

I am looking to move two websites from static pages to CMS.  However the 
sites have good Google placings and I do not want to break all the 
existing URLs.

My usual CMS is Website Baker which generates the URLs by creating files 
for each page based on the menu structure to the page, and puts them all 
within a pages/ directory.  So the URL for an About Us page in the 
Information section would be 
www.domain.com/pages/information/about-us.php  However on the existing 
website it could be www.domain.com/about.php (fortunately I did use .php 
extension).

I am looking for a CMS which lets the user specify the URL separately to 
the menu structure to the page, and also doesn't require them all to be 
within a pages/ directory.  So that I could specify that the About Us 
page URL is www.domain.com/about.php and it accepts that (as long as it 
doesn't clash with some other existing file).

Apart from that, I need something where the templates are basically PHP 
files with bits added for the CMS content, and the content stored in a 
MySQL database.

Can anyone suggest anything that would do what I need?  Or should I set 
about hacking Website Baker to do it?  Website Baker does store the URL 
in a separate "link" field in the database, and if I edit this and 
rename the file everything still works.  So I think it should be 
hackable, though it may not be very pretty!

I'd also need to get rid of the /pages/ directory, but that is a 
configuration option.

Thanks!
Paul

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Best regards,
Paul Stenning

www.vintage-radio.com
www.vintage-radio.net
www.service-data.com
www.sp-tech.co.uk