There is no installer. That means you will need to make the installation manually, which requires no technical knowledge whatsoever. A future version may include a short installer, if the demand is high...
Required steps
Notes
Required steps
- Check your server configuration - CSE CMS is written in PHP. It should work under versions 4 and higher.
The folder strcture requires a web server with
mod_rewrite
support - the most common is Apache. It will not work if url rewriting is not supported. Ask your host if you are not sure... or do the steps 2 and 3 below and check if it works. - Install CSE CMS - copy the CSE CMS files in your root directory (or the "home" directory for the part of your website that you want to manage with CSE CMS.
- .htaccess - change the name of "_htaccess" to ".htaccess" (a dot instead of an underscore) - when you do this, the file becomes invisible! See note (1) below before doing it.
- Create the directory structure - the first level is language folders, of 2 characters. Supported languages by default are english "en", french "fr" and german "de". You can add other languages but will have to provide translations in settings.php.
Inside those folders, create a directory structure a you see fit to organse your information - this will become the menu structure on your website. Create a text file - Test your website - call in a browser your website followed by the language folder, e.g. http://mywebsite.com/en. If you obtain a normal page looking like this one (which will display the content of the "en" folder, so nothing if you did not put anything there), then everything is fine!
- Make your website - each webpage is either a folder, or a text document. The title of the page is the folder or file name (extension like .txt is stripped and underscores _ are replaced by spaces). Put your information as text files (or html files saved e.g. by Word) in the correct "chapter" (i.e. folder) and there you go!
- change settings - open settings.php in a text editor, and edit the following line:
$CSE_SITE_ROOT = "http://www.youraddress.com/my/directory";
- the url of the folder where CSE CMS is installed, if you want to use it in other variable definitions.$CSE_USERLIST = "user_list";
- the file containing the name password and group of registered users, for safety reasons should be modified.- Other elements can be modified as desired.
- List of users - if you want to define "private folders" accessible only for registered users, create a file with the exact name given in
$CSE_USERLIST
(don't add an extension if no extension like .txt is specified in $CSE_USERLIST), and add on each line one user: username password group, where group is negative for administrator (all access) and positive for normal users.
Notes
- If you install CSE CMS in a sub directory and not in your main directory, you will need to modify .htaccess: at each line where there is "/CSE_CMS.php?", you will have to
modify to "/my/directory/CSE_CMS.php?", where /my/directory is obviously the installation path of CSE CMS. You will also need to modify the line:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1/ [L,R=301]
toRewriteRule ^(.*)$ /my/directory/$1/ [L,R=301]
.