Hello all, Just a quick introduction and a few questions. My name is Dave and we are currently evaluating CMS's for a new news site we are planning. The site is bluewaterbuzz.com and it will be an information site for the thumb area of Michigan. I have been evaluating quite a few CMS's in the last month and I had it narrowed it down to two choices until I read Eweeks review of Bricolage. I had heard of Bricolage before, just never tried it. (My head was swimming with cms info, installation, blah blah blah already)
We have evaluated everything from open source free systems to systems up to $30,000 and the open source systems leave the proprietory systems in the dust. The systems I had my choices narrowed down to were, Cofax and OpenCms (I have to admit I am Java bias'ed and seeing that javaworld is switching to a perl based app is pretty amusing) until I installed Bricolage, now I believe I am going to have to postpone the project to learn Bricolage. My first impression upon installing Bricolage was, this is it, this is the system to use. Although I really dig Cofax, it is a bit limited in certain areas and for this project, I dont have time to extend it.
So... here goes my questions, please chalk up the obvious ones to having seen too many CMS's already and being sick of trying to figure them out (but answer them anyway :-) )
Where is the site actually published? I know in the bric conf file the doc root is something like /usr/local/bricolage/comp which redirects me to admin, but where is the site actually published to? How do I set that. (theres the newbie question I warned you about, sorry, Im used to tomcat.)
What are the recommended minimum server requirements ?
Can more than one instance of Bricolage be installed on the same box?
Does Bricolage have built in ad handling capability?
Im a Java guy, and Perl makes my head hurt :-) Is there a code example repository anywhere?
Thank you and I look forward to learning Bricolage.
Dave
We have evaluated everything from open source free systems to systems up to $30,000 and the open source systems leave the proprietory systems in the dust. The systems I had my choices narrowed down to were, Cofax and OpenCms (I have to admit I am Java bias'ed and seeing that javaworld is switching to a perl based app is pretty amusing) until I installed Bricolage, now I believe I am going to have to postpone the project to learn Bricolage. My first impression upon installing Bricolage was, this is it, this is the system to use. Although I really dig Cofax, it is a bit limited in certain areas and for this project, I dont have time to extend it.
So... here goes my questions, please chalk up the obvious ones to having seen too many CMS's already and being sick of trying to figure them out (but answer them anyway :-) )
Where is the site actually published? I know in the bric conf file the doc root is something like /usr/local/bricolage/comp which redirects me to admin, but where is the site actually published to? How do I set that. (theres the newbie question I warned you about, sorry, Im used to tomcat.)
What are the recommended minimum server requirements ?
Can more than one instance of Bricolage be installed on the same box?
Does Bricolage have built in ad handling capability?
Im a Java guy, and Perl makes my head hurt :-) Is there a code example repository anywhere?
Thank you and I look forward to learning Bricolage.
Dave