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reply "Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> writes:
I was going to try to whip up a simple thing myself, but I'm thinking if 
there's something that'll already do what I need, why bother? So, does 
anyone know of a CMS or blog system they can recommend that can be easily 
set up to fit these requirements?:

- Works on Linux x86 / Apache 1.3.
- Uses either PHP5 or CGI.
- Uses MySQL (or even just flat files).
- Allows me to easily put up posts/articles.
- Public comments on the posts/articles.
- Anonymous comments, BUT requires a CAPTCHA for them (I've had nothing but 
trouble with any other form of anti-spam).
- Everything is fully-functional without JS (Although, if the admin panel is 
the only thing that requires JS, I can deal with that.)
- Passwords are never sent in the clear, even with JS off (I have an SSL 
cert, so https is no problem, plus I'm not worried about https overhead).
- Doesn't have that session sidejacking exploit.
- Naturally, all the basic expected stuff, like editing posts, deleting bad 
comments, etc.
Jul 27 2010
next sibling parent reply Robert Clipsham <robert octarineparrot.com> writes:
On 27/07/10 21:58, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

 I was going to try to whip up a simple thing myself, but I'm thinking if
 there's something that'll already do what I need, why bother? So, does
 anyone know of a CMS or blog system they can recommend that can be easily
 set up to fit these requirements?:

 - Works on Linux x86 / Apache 1.3.
 - Uses either PHP5 or CGI.
 - Uses MySQL (or even just flat files).
 - Allows me to easily put up posts/articles.
 - Public comments on the posts/articles.
 - Anonymous comments, BUT requires a CAPTCHA for them (I've had nothing but
 trouble with any other form of anti-spam).
 - Everything is fully-functional without JS (Although, if the admin panel is
 the only thing that requires JS, I can deal with that.)
 - Passwords are never sent in the clear, even with JS off (I have an SSL
 cert, so https is no problem, plus I'm not worried about https overhead).
 - Doesn't have that session sidejacking exploit.
 - Naturally, all the basic expected stuff, like editing posts, deleting bad
 comments, etc.


http://tangocms.org/ is my personal preference, but then I'm bias, 
there's a good few hundred LoC in there by me!

A couple of notes:
  - I've never tried it without js, but looking at my site/the demo site 
it doesn't use any js for most pages... The only places it seems to use 
it are in the AdminCP
  - SSL isn't enabled by default, you can tweak that though

Should do everything else you need, if you need a hand give me a bell :)

-- 
Robert
http://octarineparrot.com/
Jul 27 2010
parent reply Robert Clipsham <robert octarineparrot.com> writes:
On 28/07/10 00:12, Robert Clipsham wrote:

 http://tangocms.org/ is my personal preference, but then I'm bias,
 there's a good few hundred LoC in there by me!

 A couple of notes:
 - I've never tried it without js, but looking at my site/the demo site
 it doesn't use any js for most pages... The only places it seems to use
 it are in the AdminCP
 - SSL isn't enabled by default, you can tweak that though

 Should do everything else you need, if you need a hand give me a bell :)


I should probably mention, in case you went and checked the js claims I 
made about my site... I've added some js bloat to my site, that wasn't 
TangoCMS, it's not there by default.

-- 
Robert
http://octarineparrot.com/
Jul 27 2010
parent reply "Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> writes:
"Robert Clipsham" <robert octarineparrot.com> wrote in message 
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 On 28/07/10 00:12, Robert Clipsham wrote:

 http://tangocms.org/ is my personal preference, but then I'm bias,
 there's a good few hundred LoC in there by me!

 A couple of notes:
 - I've never tried it without js, but looking at my site/the demo site
 it doesn't use any js for most pages... The only places it seems to use
 it are in the AdminCP
 - SSL isn't enabled by default, you can tweak that though

 Should do everything else you need, if you need a hand give me a bell :)


 I should probably mention, in case you went and checked the js claims I 
 made about my site... I've added some js bloat to my site, that wasn't 
 TangoCMS, it's not there by default.


That's pretty damn slick!

I just tried out the demo site. Only spent a couple minutes with it but so 
far it looks like it beats the pants off of WordPress (which I was never 
quite happy with), Nucleus and b2evolution. And the admin panel is probably 
the nicest one I've seen. I'll definitely give that a try on my server.

Only thing though, I didn't see any way to delete comments (there can always 
be trolls and human-type spammers). Is there a way to do that that I missed? 
I could live with just doing it manually with SQL though, if the DB schema 
isn't too complex.
Jul 27 2010
parent Robert Clipsham <robert octarineparrot.com> writes:
On 28/7/10 01:48, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

 That's pretty damn slick!

 I just tried out the demo site. Only spent a couple minutes with it but so
 far it looks like it beats the pants off of WordPress (which I was never
 quite happy with), Nucleus and b2evolution. And the admin panel is probably
 the nicest one I've seen. I'll definitely give that a try on my server.


Glad you like it :)


 Only thing though, I didn't see any way to delete comments (there can always
 be trolls and human-type spammers). Is there a way to do that that I missed?
 I could live with just doing it manually with SQL though, if the DB schema
 isn't too complex.


AdminCP->Comments->Check comment/comments to delete->Delete Selected.

The option's hidden away at the bottom, next to "Approve selected". As 
for the db schema, deleting would be as simple as (untested, haven't 
done any SQL in a while):

DELETE FROM tcm_mod_comments WHERE id = 6;

Replacing tcm_ with whatever prefix you used when you installed 
TangoCMS, and 6 is the id of the comment to delete (You can get this 
from either editting the comment, or just looking at the id="" for the 
comment. Of course you don't need to do this thanks to the button 
mentioned above =]

--
Robert
http://octarineparrot.com/
Jul 27 2010
prev sibling parent Lionello Lunesu <lio lunesu.remove.com> writes:
On 2010-07-27 13:58, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

 I was going to try to whip up a simple thing myself, but I'm thinking if
 there's something that'll already do what I need, why bother? So, does
 anyone know of a CMS or blog system they can recommend that can be easily
 set up to fit these requirements?:

 - Works on Linux x86 / Apache 1.3.
 - Uses either PHP5 or CGI.
 - Uses MySQL (or even just flat files).
 - Allows me to easily put up posts/articles.
 - Public comments on the posts/articles.
 - Anonymous comments, BUT requires a CAPTCHA for them (I've had nothing but
 trouble with any other form of anti-spam).
 - Everything is fully-functional without JS (Although, if the admin panel is
 the only thing that requires JS, I can deal with that.)
 - Passwords are never sent in the clear, even with JS off (I have an SSL
 cert, so https is no problem, plus I'm not worried about https overhead).
 - Doesn't have that session sidejacking exploit.
 - Naturally, all the basic expected stuff, like editing posts, deleting bad
 comments, etc.


PMWiki, no contest. http://www.pmwiki.org/
Jul 27 2010