[sclug] Web and document admin questions on Linux.

[Chris Hammond]

Hi Mark
Check out this web site http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/  it is an open source web content management system ( I use it for my personal web site). You can build a very professional looking system and not have to see any html code, unless you really want to:). It runs on a MySQL back end and is very quick and easy to set up. I found it on sourceforge here http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpwebsite/ whilst looking for something else and converted my hand made website to this program and never looked back. They have a demo site but if you want to see two other examples then go here www.antbrother.homelinux.com or here www.pomgolian.homelinux.com for my two personal web sites running from my home pc bother with very different themes but using the same 'out of the box' software.

Cheers
Chris

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Hello fellow sclug?ers,
I recently offered (well ... was volunteered to be honest) in my spare time to help out a local School web site.
The School in question is under very tight budget constraints so this project is being done on a shoestring budget.
My choice for a web server would be typically a cheap Linux system running RedHat 9 and apache 2. 

I can build the system, ipchains and set up the Apache server no problems. What I?ve not had any much experience with is from the user?s perspective of content and document management.  Typically they would like this as easy as possible, be it word documents or whatever and click and go and the information is visible to the world. I can provide Samba for c connections internally for content admins to browse the system but my knowledge is sadly lacking in free tools that are easy for users to use to build their own pages and manage documents from a pc environment for running on apache.

All wisdom and advice appreciated.

Regards,

Mark Smiles                        
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