Savannah W-ITS

Moving your Wordpress site to a new URI?  If so, you will need to update the database entries that are specific to your new URI.  Some solutions to making global data changes:
Solution A – pre-import data massage

export the SQL data from the current site
make changes via a ’stream editor’ like ’sed’ (replace all instances of [...]

I previously posted about migrating static pages to Drupal – in this post I will explore importing/migrating data into Wordpress.
Solution A – a simple approach to import new POSTS from static HTML files.
At this time, Wordpress is one of the best documented (IMO) Open Source solutions – the project’s information sharing model is a great [...]

CMS=Content Management System
Rails = Ruby on Rails – a development framework using the Ruby language, Active Record, and Restful programming.
VDI – virtual disk image (Sun Virtualbox virtual machine solution)
Zena is described as a state of the art CMS “with a focus on usability, ease of customization and web 2.0 goodness (application like behaviour).”  There are [...]

If you have a number of old web sites or even a significant number of static HTML web pages then you may decide that moving them into a web based content management system (CMS) or even a blog might provide a benefit.

First, reasons NOT to migrate:

• not enough time, money, resources
• static pages actually ‘perform’ better (i.e. they will display faster since there are no, or fewer, dynamic components); in fact, many

Made Simple? Let’s see how long it takes before the PSH (problem solving hat) is required.   See minor steps (bottom of page) taken BEFORE starting the install… I am using the 13 step installation guide from the CMSMS web site.

1. check requirements – web server, DB server, ftp or ssh server access
2. download – many options (file version choices – should be a one-click

As noted elsewhere I planned to try Drupal a few months back.  This is actually my third look at it – I found it to be less than ready for my needs during previous views (~2003-2006.)  I will attempt to install and use this solution without putting on my TSH (trouble shooting hat.)

With Open Source projects it is quite common to encounter hurdles with even simple things, like installing the