Last Update: 2016-02-25
As it's name suggests, it is a CMS written in Node.js. Node was chosen because of its high performance and its low memory consumption.
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Current version is 0.0.x, it's currently a proof of concept of the system's architecture.
Although it provides means to retrieve, insert, update and delete articles, it doesn't have any sort of security mechanism.
These are the oldest versions which CmsJS has been tested on (and works!). Probably some older versions should work, but, it's always recommended that you have the latest stable versions available.
The following nodejs modules will be installed:
- express 3
- jade
- jshashes
- markdown
- mongodb
- mongoose
- nodeunit
So far, mongoose has not been used, but at some point there's a good chance that it will be easier to specify the models using this module.
If you are in a hurry, or if you don't mind knowing what you do :), just issue the following commands at the location where you want CmsJS to live in your hard drive.
git clone git://github.com/erickthered/cmsjs.git
cd cmsjs
npm install
node app.js
Then you just point your browser to:
http://servername:7777/
Assuming you don't have any special requirements for your mongo database (port no 27017, username and password), you should see the main page of cmsjs.
The first thing you should do, is open your command line. Then go to the folder where you want CmsJS to reside. (e.g. /var/www/), keep in mind that a new folder cmsjs will be created when you clone the repository.
Then just type the following command:
git clone git://github.com/erickthered/cmsjs.git
After it's finnished, there should be a new folder/directory named cmsjs. (e.g. /var/www/cmsjs). Now, just change the current directory:
cd cmsjs
Now you're ready to install the module dependencies for this project.
Like any other Node.js project, the package.json defines the required modules. To install the libraries, just type
npm install
After a while, all libraries should have been installed. Check for a folder called node_modules and there you should be able to see one directory for every module that has been installed.
To run CmsJS, you should have mongod running in your machine. Once you've checked that status of mongoDB, you can start the application with the following command:
node app.js
It should display the following messages:
Starting CmsJS on port 7777
Initialing Core...
Initializing ADMIN routes
Initializing ARTICLE routes...
Initializing INDEX routes...
Initializing MENU routes...
Initializing USER routes...
This tells you that the application started successfully and informs you about the port it is using. Now you can point your browser to:
http://localhost:7777/
And you should see CmsJS start page.
In order to be able to add content to the site, you have to craete a users collection in you database, and insert and object with the username and the SHA512 encrypted password that you desire.
For example if you wanted to use foo as the username, and foobar as the password, you would do something like this:
mongo
> db.users.insert({ username: 'foo', password: '0a50261ebd1a390fed2bf326f2673c145582a6342d523204973d0219337f81616a8069b012587cf5635f6925f1b56c360230c19b273500ee013e030601bf2425' });
Now you can point your browser to: http://localhost:7777/login and use the username and password that you inserted to add some content to the site.
- Ver. 0.1 - Basic blog functionality (articles and comments) with integrated editor. Basic authentication but no user management.
- Ver. 0.2 - Support for static pages and file uploads (resources).
- Ver. 0.3 - Article categories and RSS feeds. Navigation menus.
- Ver. 0.4 - Facebook and Twitter Integration: Likes and autotweet based on RSS feed.
- Ver. 0.5 - Improved security, user and role management, Configuration Panel.
- Ver. 0.6 - Sitemap and basic SEO (keywords and description)
- Ver. 0.7 - Themes
- Ver. 0.8 - Integrated stats (most visited URL, most active author, most active commenter)
- Ver. 0.9 - Basic workflow support.
- Ver. 1.0 - Content versioning.