Toss (2) Select a CMS

I forgot why I switched the space on Godaddy from IIS6 to iis7, but I didn't feel any improvement at the time. Recently I found that iis7 supports php5.x, most of the excellent CMS systems are built with PHP, so the idea of replacing the current website with CMS emerged.

CMS is short for content management system.ArticleImages, sounds, and videos can all be content. Naturally, any system that can manage these things can be called a content management system. Therefore, CMS is a very broad concept, like early news, portals, and blogs.

For me, if I can use CMS to replace my personal website, it is very practical to update website information and provide more user interaction.

The preferred CMS is durpal, which goes down to 6.1. a MySQL database is created manually and the installation script is called by starting durpal. First, the database connection error occurs. Check that durpal uses localhost to connect to the database server address provided by Godaddy by default. This time, no error occurs, but the current page will be reloaded every time you set the database, the installation cannot continue.

No way. Find the durpal configuration.Code, Directly write the database connection information, and then re-open the installation script. The installation will soon be completed.

Looking at durpal's huge architecture and settings, when I was thinking about how to configure it, I suddenly found that no matter what settings I made seemed to be ineffective. I think of the database connection problem, where was it not installed? Google is everywhere. It seems that durpal has used some MySQL features that are not supported by the Godaddy windows space. As a result, many problems cannot be solved and are basically unavailable, unless everything is changed manually.

Depressed, but it was not unsearchable. Unexpectedly, Godaddy had a hosting Connect service, which included a bunch of open-source network applications, including durpal, joomla, wordPress, SMF, etc. Hosting connect also indicates the compatibility of these applications to different hosts. Of course, durpal is not compatible with Windows Hosts. More importantly, hosting connect provides automatic installation for these applications.

So I chose joomla 1.5, started automatic installation, entered the installation path, Database Password, Administrator account, and waited for more than 10 minutes. It was really convenient.

Looking at durpal and looking at joomla, I feel a lot more simple, especially I don't like its background style. It's too ugly. Although joomla can be well integrated with many systems, it cannot find a template of interest. It cannot imagine what my website looks like and basically gives up.

I didn't have a new choice at the moment. I decided to create a blog first and install a WordPress. I still felt good about WordPress. I checked and found that some of the functions I needed were basically ready. Although it is still a blog, it may not be my CMS in the near future. In short, if you have time, it will be easy to get involved :)