Re: [Sheflug] Community content management systems - Midgard

[Andres Baravalle <a.baravalle [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Holland wrote:
> Anyone there with any experience of using content management systems such as 
> Midgard?
>
> I had developed my own system a couple of years ago which works well enough 
> but needed further work to make it a more polished product. Was considering 
> getting involved with Midgard then but my work on this had to take a back 
> seat in favour of earning a living. Now looking at these again seriously for 
> community intranet use. Also looked at ez-publish as an alternative but this 
> appears to be moving more towards a Windows based product.
>
> Need something like Midgard which is preferably based on LAMP - I have a lot 
> of content to port across, I already understand how to do this with LAMP & I  
> could also probably help to extend Midgard. For the benefit of the local 
> community whatever is selected should be GPL'd.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Bob Holland
the main problem of projects like midgard (and horde before midgard) is 
that you need a access with high privileges to the server and so is not 
suitable if you are using a shared hosting.

have a look at 
http://www.midgard-project.org/documentation/installation/framework

to have an idea of what I'm saying...

you can find a comprehensive list of open source cms at 
http://www.opensourcecms.com/.

bye,
	Andres
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