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1. tomw
   Member

   Wolfram and I are happy to announce that the initial version of odCMS (0.1)is available for download.

   http://odcms.net/index.php?usite=docs&Page=Download

   odCMS is a simple CMS uses data stored in regular files so that no database system such as MySQL is required. You simply download odCMS and unpack its files and upload them into your site’s ROOT directory. If you wish not to install at the site’s ROOT level then you must create a sub-domain and install odCMS at the sub-domain ROOT. You can install odCMS in the sub-directory; however you will lose the flexibility of managing the site using odCMS.

   odCMS is a project in response to Wolfram’s request for a simple CMS. It is based on Ben’s Barnyard BBS using the functions from my project TML. The main objective of this project is to keep the CMS simple and easy to use but will include the popular features such as Blog, News, Gallery, and Forum. The initial version of odCMS has accomplished that goal and more. Please download odCMS and try it out for yourself and let us know what you think. You can also try it out here:

   http://odcms.net/?usite=demo

   if you wish not to install it. Thank you.

   Posted 2 years ago #

2. Utah web design
   Member

   Wow, this looks very promising. Congrats on a great project.

   Posted 2 years ago #

3. ukmike
   Member

   Not sure what I am doing wrong but I don't appear to see the default template. I have installed this locally as I want to try and understand how it works.
   However the index page is only showing text and no imagery like this:
   Open Designs Content Management System

   * Home

   Section #1

   Section #1 content...
   Home
   odCMS Home Page

   Thank you for installing odCMS. Please provide feedback. Thanks.

   - odCMS development team
   Section #2

   Section #2 content...
   Section #3

   Section #3 content...
   Section #4

   Section #4 content...

   Not sure what I am doing wrong so any advice would be appreciated.
   Thanks.

   Posted 2 years ago #

4. tomw
   Member

   ukmike, I don't think you installed odCMS at the ROOT directory as instructed but you can still run it by specifying the complete path.

   Example:

   http://localhost/odcms/demo/

   Utah web design, thanks for the encouragement.

   Posted 2 years ago #

5. uberlemurguy
   Moderator

   wow this project has really grown since my participation in it. I think that it is incredible but I don't think it is a "simple" cms any more. It does blogging, forums and all sorts of things! Just out of curiosity, why can't you install in a non-root directory? Is it some absolute path issues? I ran into that when I wrote my cms, I will send you some code that is fully tested to get directories. GREAT JOB!

   Posted 2 years ago #

6. ukmike
   Member

   Tomw I have got things up and running now-thanks for that. I shall read through the documentation and start to put a site together. This is my first real attempt at using a CMS so I shall let you know how I get on.

   Posted 2 years ago #

7. tomw
   Member

   Alec, the pre-released version of odCMS was shown to Sean and he made a comment that the system was performing redirect without 301 and that will hurt the site’s SEO. One of the features of odCMS is an option of having multiple sites within a single installation. odCMS was handling redirect internally and I did not know about without 301 will affect SEO. Since multiple sites required a sub-directory for each site so no site can be installed at the ROOT level but Wolfram’s requirement was that main site must be shown without a sub-directory; for example http://my_domain.com/my_odcms_site/. The solution was to performing a change directory (chdir) before the start of the process. So now if you enter –

   http://odcms.net/?usite=demo will show the Demo site and
   http://odcms.net/?usite=wdn will show the Web Designers Network site.

   As you can see, there is no sub-directory shown at the browser’s Address bar. However, this will not work if odCMS is installed at a sub-directory level. Seems like this is a PHP issue but I can’t find the reason.

   One interesting thing I found that turn out to be very usefully with this configuration - that is you can have multiple domain-names using a single hosting plan. For example:

   http://ztml.org/ and
   http://odcms.net/ are using the host (ztml.org).

   BTW, thanks for helping out putting the admin cPanel together. Your CMS (lemurCMS) looks very nice. Great job!

   ukmike, nice to know you got the system running. Please let me know if you need any help.

   Posted 2 years ago #

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