[kaffe-siteadmin] Shining up the website

[Kristian Rasmussen]

On 10/18/05, Jim Pick <jim at kaffe.org> wrote:
> Server-wise, I'd like to set it up in a Xen session.  I've got lots of
> space on my new server.
Sounds great.

> The only comment I have about using PHP is just that we won't be able to
> run the website on Kaffe (eg. using Tomcat or some other web server).  I
>   always thought it would be sort of cool if the project was self-hosting.
Yeah, I can see that. Is there no way to make PHP run on Tomcat or the like?

> What do you think about using some sort of a CMS?  Or do you prefer
> static web pages?
Well, most CMS-systems are based on PHP, so that's results in the
same. We could try something that runs on Python or Perl, but I don't
really know if they're mature enough yet?

The main thing is that things get more complicated when I have to deal
with foreign (and often complex) code. Especially will the design
often become hard to control. CMS's often have many features we don't
need, and they have to be stripped for the website not to get bloated
and with many unused and irrelevant sections.

Therefore, I usually make my own little CMS, that lets people control
the content of the pages and nothing more. I usually then store the
content in a MySQL/PGSQL-database. For "users", a textarea is usually
better than files they have to handle themselves. In this case, since
you guys are geeks, I figured it would be better for you to edit the
files yourselves, as you always have done.

I see two choices:
1. Make the server run PHP
2. Base it on Perl, Python (i do neither) or just SSI as before

Also, i'd like to know if there are any other things we would use
something dynamic (based on PHP or something other server-side) for,
except the includes for the site structure? Like a forum, a
news-system or a calendar?

Cheers,
Kristian

> Cheers,
>
>   - Jim
>
> Kristian Rasmussen wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > A while ago, i started talking with dalibor on IRC about how I could
> > contribute. Dalibor said that the website could use a new design and a
> > proper codebase. Since I'm a web person and, besides that, a
> > non-programmer, I took the job. I've only recently begun working on
> > it.
> >
> > Here's the plan, as currently imagined in my head and as discussed with dalibor:
> > *Make a new codebase (proper code, strict xhtml) on the same design
> > with easily changeable design (i. e. html that lets css control the
> > design)
> > *Make a new design, which hopefully then will be easily changeable
> >
> > Now, here comes the slightly more controversial part: My plan is to
> > base it on PHP, so as to get some more flexibility and some fewer
> > bytes. Also, it's what I'm used to working in.
> >
> > More specifically, to replace the current SSI-include system, I'm
> > going to let each page be included in the index.
> >
> > Does anyone have any objections against that? And what's the
> > situation, server-wise?
> >
> > /Kristian Rasmussen
> >
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