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I have an existing website. I want to add a CMS, but I don't need to create pages or navigation with the CMS. I'm trying to determine if adding CMSMS will conflict with my existing site if I install it.

The existing site is a collection of .html and .php5 files, all at the root.  The Apache server parses .html and .php5 files for PHP5, and .php files for PHP4.  There are some .htm files which are not parsed for PHP. The only directories under the root are: /cgi, /content, /css, /images and /stats.  An OpenX install is in the /adtrack directory.

The new existing site uses CSS Layout extensively.  I'm an experienced LAMP developer, and I'm currently maintaining 5 older sites that utilize a legacy in-house SmartyTemplates/CMS configuration.

Our business model depends heavily upon our Search Engine Rankings, so I need clean URLs and HTML that will validate.

Any thoughts/suggestions?  Meantime, I think I'll download/install the code onto a localhost dev server. I did see one CMSMS example site over on the "brag" discussion that seemed to serve up .html files, clean URLs, with no hierachical structure or navigation:
https://www.espressoquest.com

Thanks, any thoughts, suggestions, or references to existing posts would be greatly appreciated!

I want to add a CMS, but I don't need to create pages or navigation with the CMS.

Why do it then?

Nick

Nick Smart wrote:

I want to add a CMS, but I don't need to create pages or navigation with the CMS.

Why do it then?

Nick

Because we still need to Manage the Content within the existing PHP and CSS page structure.  Currently, our editors create/modify HTML content snippets using Homesite, and then move them (along with any images) to the server via FTP.

Hello,

SchwingBlade wrote: I'm an experienced LAMP developer, and I'm currently maintaining 5 older sites that utilize a legacy in-house SmartyTemplates/CMS configuration.

We only know CMSms and may be Smarty. You know your sites, Smarty and may be CMSms. So I think you can decide better than us if there may be any conflict. My only suggestion is to pay attention to the URL distribution of all things.

Have fun using CMSms

Pierre

Pierre M. wrote: ...I think you can decide better than us if there may be any conflict. My only suggestion is to pay attention to the URL distribution of all things.

Good points, Pierre, and thanks for the tip. I'm installing CMSms to a dev environment on my desktop this morning, and I'll do my own assessment.  But if anyone has first-hand experience with a similar application, I'd still like to hear from you.  Thanks!

Hi,

Well maybe I misunderstood what you want to achieve. I read your email as saying that you didn't want to pull your existing pages into CMSMS.

Anyway, It's pretty easy to pull an existing static site into CMSMS, I've done it a few times. Watching this video is well worth while:

http://cmsmadesimple.org/uploads/media/ ... colate.htm

If your main concern is pretty URLs then are easy too using mod_rewrite. Read through the installation section in the docs.

Not sure what your php pages do, you'll have to scan through the modules to see what's available.

Good luck.

Nick