want to use CMS Made simple but......

[koustubh]

Hello,

After a long long research I found the CMS MS simple and its great for template systems, Extra modules, and very steep learning curve, so I went ahead building one website, but after I installed the CMSMS the errors started poping up...

1. Page not found
2. Smarty template Error
3. Admin CSS bugs -- this I read in forum that problem with the modules files, which we uninstall, the info get remove from DB but the files remaining and cause problem to CMS Admin css files.
4. Numerous problems while editing -- like this cannot be modified and then you have to refresh the page then it works sometime, and sometime you will get page not found etc. tec.

I agree this is a really great CMS but we install it for a user who is not very techinical it, he is really struggling to update his website among from these errors, he is very disoppinted.

Do you all guys had these experiences or its only me?

I am using Linux as a production server, and development server is windows.

Hope the senior guys look into this, if you need any more detailed information, I can provide that.

Thanks in advance
K.

[Dr.CSS]

Windows servers are a problem but they can be used if you set things up right...

I would suggest using search to find the windows threads...

PS. I use linux servers with 1and1 and several clients use them also with out any problems...

[koustubh]

I use linux servers only, but still I am getting errors.

Any houghts.

Thanks

[Dr.CSS]

Are you trying to develop the site on one server then move it to another?...

[koustubh]

Mark,

No, I am developing the site on the production server itself.
I really appricaiate your supprot, but I don't get the thing working smoothly like I want.

Thanks
k.

[Dr.CSS]

With access I may be able to fix it?...

[Elijah Lofgren]

1. Page not found

On CMSMS 0.13 it would display a page not found error when it could not connect to the database. CMSMS 1.0.x should display a "Database connection failed" error when it cannot connect.
When do you get this error? On the frondend? Always or just sometimes?

2. Smarty template Error

If this is occurring right away on the frontend then it is usually caused by an incomplete upload of all the CMSMS files.
If this happens after editing a page it is usually caused by using curly brackets ({ and }) which trick Smarty into thinking it is a call to itself. For the easy way to work around this see: http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... and_Smarty

3. Admin CSS bugs -- this I read in forum that problem with the modules files, which we uninstall, the info get remove from DB but the files remaining and cause problem to CMS Admin css files.

So the Admin sometimes gets displayed without styling? Or does it happen all the time. I think this may be caused by an overloaded server.

4. Numerous problems while editing -- like this cannot be modified and then you have to refresh the page then it works sometime, and sometime you will get page not found etc. tec.

The fact that it only happens sometimes makes me really suspect an overloaded server, especially since it works fine on your local test PC.

Do you all guys had these experiences or its only me?

I did have some annoying problems on an old webhost that I was using. I have since switched to a more reliable webhost and things are working great. On my local Linux test server things work great also.


Hope this helps,

Elijah