ezPublish?

This may be absolutely wrong for this forum. I'm taking a wild stab, but I just don't know.

Has anyone here successfully installed ezPublish? Is anyone willing to offer advice concerning problems I'm having with my installation?

TIA,
James

 

Hi James,

As for the first question, yes, I've successfully installed EzPublish. For the second question I think you'd better brave the Ez.no forums, that will be much more useful

I've abandoned Ez in favor of Drupal myself, anyway...

 

Installed it once, to have a look at it.

The Resource Limits in the "php.ini" file had to be increased before I was able to install it, went from "memory_limit = 8M" to "memory_limit = 16M" (no go) then to "memory_limit = 32M" (worked).

Note: root access to the server is required to change this file.

 

I posted a detailed description to the ez.no forums. It's been languishing there for a week now. With their set-up, it's impossible to see whether anyone's even looking at it.

I'm not all that psyched about using it, but it's what the boss wants.

 

You can also override that in .htaccess.

That's probably not my trouble. At least, the people who have trouble with that haven't matched my problem. The install seems to go fine, but my nodes aren't getting added to the database, or something. So for (almost) every page, I wind up with ez's internal "Could not find page" or "could not find module" error.

So I broke down, got php working with apache on my development machine (again), and decided to try installing it locally. Wish me luck!

 

Isn't ezpublish something you pay for? If so, shouldn't their support people be actively helping you?

 

I think they have options for paying, and there's direct support available there. People who really decide ez's worth using should probably use those options.

Personally, I think doing a CMS in PHP is just silly. PHP's great for simple web sites that you hack together over the weekend.

I've worked with a few "serious" sites now that used PHP. One was the job that prompted me to start this thread. That guy really wanted a graphic artist (which I'm not) to rework the look/feel of his ez site, followed by a switch over to jsp. His site got the new look; I haven't cared enough to go back and see what sort of technology they're using these days (they should be switched to jsp by now).

Another was a site with a home-grown CMS (and that's putting it loosely). The site owner hopes to switch to something sensible, like python, sometime in the next generation or so.

PHP's great for hacking together quick sites. It gets ugly (er) when things get complicated. This is one of the reasons that I support web hosts that are python-friendly.