escc website capabilities

ESCC Website Capabilitieshttps://escc-east.es.net

Marcy Santana, ESnetESCC Meeting

February 9th, 2006

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Introduction Overview of the System Media Wiki vs TWiki Show Plesk and Mambo Admin Interface Demo User Interface Questions and Suggestions

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Overview of the System Web server running FreeBSD

Moved all web pages from www1 to www-east

New web server www-west planned for redundancy

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Overview of the System (2)

Plesk is hosting management software from SWsoft

Mambo is an application in Plesk. Mambo Open Source Content Management software is used to create and manage the website. Mambo requires an Apache web server, MySQL

database, and PHP MamboWiki – Wiki - 3rd party component for Mambo. XHTMLSuite - WYSIWYG editor - 3rd party component for

Mambo. Plesk and Mambo can be used with most major

browsers including: Internet Explorer, Netscape, and Mozilla.

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Overview of the System (3)

Plesk is used to administer the web server.

Plesk is being used for:

Administering domains and subdomains

Managing hosting, web users, SSL certificates

Backing up and restoring domains

Application vault (Mambo)

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Overview of the System (4)

Mambo Content Management System Web-based publishing Mambo Administrator Web Interface

Create Menu Items, Blogs, User Polls, and Forums …

Add documents to a download area Catalogue documents according to type Provides editable templates

Secure site areas for registered users Does not require knowledge of any programming

languages Mambo is released under a GNU/GPL license http://www.mamboserver.com

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Mambo Features and Benefits: Large developer community (> 16,000) Over 40 languages supported Online help and documentation Many templates available Hierarchical user access groups Visitor statistics Multiple WYSIWYG content editor support Over 730 plug-ins, templates, and components

are available at http://www.mamboforge.net

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Media Wiki vs TWiki http://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/TWiki+MediaWiki+Confluence+TracWiki

TWiki 4.0 Programming Language…..Perl Text Files…………………Yes MySQL……………………No RCS……………………….Yes Mail Encryption…………...Yes Commercial Support………Yes WYSIWYG Editing……….Yes File Attachments…………..Yes Image Editing Plugin………Yes

MediaWiki 1.5.2 Programming Language………..PHP Text Files………………………No MySQL………………………...Yes RCS…………………………….No Mail Encryption………………..No Commercial Support……………No WYSIWYG Editing…………….No File Attachments………………..Yes Image Editing…………………...No

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MediaWiki vs TWiki (2)

Wiki’s are a great way to present and edit content on the web. Team members can collaborate on information and on the creation of documents.

MamboWiki uses PHP to process and display data stored in a MySQL database. Upload images and files to the file system. Edits to pages are written to the database. Previous versions of pages are not deleted.

MediaWiki released under a GNU/GPL license.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

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Media Wiki vs TWiki (3)

ESnet is using TWiki internally for project planning. TWiki will be added to the ESCC web site soon.

TWiki Features: Edit or add content using any browser Email-Notifications File Attachments Revision Control Used for Project Development Knowledge Base and FAQ system Document Management Tool Software Archive Access Control Search http://www.twiki.org

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User Interface To Register go here:https://escc-east.es.net/index.php?option=com_registration&task=register(Administrator will activate your account)

Click on menu item “Home”

Login under “User Menu”

Click on “Your Details” under “User Menu” to change login name and password

Upload and Edit Documents

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Demo New ESCC Website Demo ESCC Members website

Questions and Suggestions?

Contact webmaster@es.net