[KLUG Members] CMS Systems

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> I think what you should look into is Drupal. www.drupal.org

Ah, so thats what drupal is!  I've heard about Drupal on the OGo lists
but never knew what it was.

> www.thisweekintech.com uses it, as well as spreadfirefox.com
> Pretty easy to setup. It's PHP, uses MySQL.
> Drupal does all of what you need, plus the ability to host forums.

Drupal does look very nice - AND it includes documentation,  my primary
reservation with x-oops (who seem to think web forums ARE documentation,
Hint: they are not).

> I'm JUST starting to use it, so don't take my word for it, but so  
> far, so good...

At a glance Drupal does look like it has potential.  My only concern is
they seem to suffer from the "When all you know is LAMP, everything
looks like a bulb" issue.  

For instance, they perform periodic maintenance by suggesting you put -
0   *   *   *   *   wget -O - -q http://www.example.com/cron.php
- in your crontab.  Eeee gads!

But it may be easy enough to fix things like that - put "#!/usr/bin/php" on the first line of the script and put -
0   *   *   *   *   /usr/local/bin/drupal-cron.php
- in your crontab AND REMOVE cron.php from beneath your web-root.

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