[ILUG] Simple web application

[Michael Watterson]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a simple application (Linux or Windows)
> which a nerdish child could use for creating material for a web-site?
> (I think the plan is to put a newsletter of some kind on the web.)
>   
TikiWiki

Need Apache, Pearl, PEAR, MySQL.

Allows people without any sw to edit.
You can make it readonly for everyone except the editor

Example sites done with it that are NOT used web 2.0 style (the great 
unwashed can only look):
http://bytelive.com/wiki/tiki-custom_home.php
http://www.wattystuff.net/tiki/tiki-index.php

If you are seriously into fiddling you can create your own theme instead 
of using one of the many supplied skins.

The UL CU is running one on UL's Skynet, but I don't know the URL and 
after 2 weeks they haven't figured how to get their domain name pointed 
at Skynet.

At the other end of the scale vi & ftp :-)

I've used WYSIWG web editors (NOT Frontpage arrgg) inc the one in 
Netscape. But if it is just casual and someone else might need to take 
it over then a Wiki package is way to go. MediaWiki while used by 
Wikipedia is very sparse on features. Tikiwiki is reasonably stable and 
has loads of stuff you can turn on /off.

I tried running it on IIS & SQL2000. :( Painful. It does work "out of 
the box" on most Linux shared hosts (from about €30 a year) that have 
Apache/MySQL, and of course if you stick MySQL and Apache on Win2000 
server AS WELL as the IIS and MS SQL (needed for MS SUS, unless you 
figure a way to update loads of Windows Workstations using WUS running 
with Apache & MYSQL?) it works as long as you change the default ports.


-- 
Mike