PostNuke Review of my Install

• that color should be darker/lighter
• that box should be smaller/larger
• that font should be bigger/smaller
• that frame should be wider/thinner

so I spend hours and hours just wasting time doing almost nothing and when I am finished I always decide that I liked it better before I started monkeying with it.

renently I decided that a CMS (content management system) must be the way to go. maybe I would be happier with that.

I searched around and it looks like a lot of people are happy with PostNuke so I downloaded it and started to install it.

I transferred it to my server and found out that I had to unzip it first on my computer, so I did then used my ftp program to transfer it back to the server one file at a time, it took about an hour. thank god I have a cable modem. If your on a dial up you better let it run overnight.

Then I had to change the permission settings with chmod the 4 or 5 try it worked and then the install began.

I got to the point where it crashed because something was wrong with the database, this gave me flash backs from installing my phpbb and the 18 hours it took to get the database and the program to install and run.

I give up and quit. I decided I would rather spend my 18 hours making dumb little changes to my html code.

Total time invested - 2 hours.

Results, one half installed non-working CMS system.

February 25, 2005

PostNuke CMS

• Linux
• apache 1.3.33
• php 4.3.9
• my sql 4.0.22

so I guess that's good enough not to cause the problems.

I run my ftp program and change the permissions on some of the files and folders.

I run the install again and get new error messages this time.

The error messages make no sense at all.

From my cpanel I:

• create a new mysql database
• caeate a new user
• add access to localhost

I run it again and I get new error messages this time.

I go back to cpanel and remember I have to add the new user to the database.

I also add the localhost again just incase you have to do this for each new user.

Then I close down everything just incase some gremlins are hanging out in my computer.

After the restart I run install.php and.... Oops somehow it looks like it's doing something this time.

PostNuke is up and running

It has only been one hour today and I am entering my username and password in postnuke.

hard to believe it is up and running, of course it is installed down two directories postnuke/html/index.html

so I am going to have to reinstall everything if I am going to keep this on my site.

I spend one more hour working with trying to get postnuke configured, and it is slow going.

on the home page there is a block that gives you a pull down for english, it lists one option - english. I figure I don't need block with a pulldown with one option on my homepage so I delete this block.

2.5 hours into this project today and I have deleted one block off the main page and spent the rest of the time trying to figure out what all the options are.

I would not call the navigation very intuitive it seems to be very slow going.

I have spent a lot of time trying to figure out what "Add a new ephemerid" means. I guess once I get this figured out I will be Adding new ephemerids left and right. But for not it is all very confusing.

I entered a new test news story and it was promptly eaten, never to be seen again.

I guess I will have to read some instructions, it looks like it has a bit of a learning curve but once you get past that it is probably easy to use.

The install took 12.17 megabytes of disk space, and it looks like the transfer was around 8 megabytes.

I have been searching for instructions on using PostNuke, it looks like almost anything you want to do you need to install 2 or 5 other modules to it.

I am thinking that you would almost be better off just learning html and writing your own web pages, it would probably be a little faster to start.

I think this PostNuke would work well if you wanted to take a week to study it and get all the modules you needed installed and train everyone who was going to use it, at that point you would probably be happy with it.

For a single user with a small site, it is way too much work.

February 26, 2005

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