Banshee

Banshee is a PHP website framework with a main focus on security. It has a Model-View-Controller architecture and uses XSLT for the view. MySQL is being used as the default database, but with little effort other databases can be used as well. Although it's called a framework, it comes with a ready to use CMS, lots of libraries and modules like a forum, weblog and a guestbook.

Configure your webserver

Use the directory 'public' as the webroot directory and allow PHP execution. If you use the Hiawatha webserver, you can use the following configuration:

UrlToolkit {
	ToolkitID = banshee
	RequestURI isfile Return
	Match ^/(css|files|fonts|images|js)(/|$) Return
	Match ^/(favicon.ico|robots.txt)$ Return
	Match [^?]*(\?.*)? Rewrite /index.php$1
}

Directory {
	DirectoryID = files
	Path = /files
	StartFile = index.html
	ShowIndex = yes
	ExecuteCGI = no
}

Directory {
	DirectoryID = static
	Path = /css, /fonts, /images, /js
	ExpirePeriod = 2 weeks
}

VirtualHost {
	...
	UseToolkit = banshee
	UseDirectory = static, files
}

For Apache, there is a .htaccess file in the 'public' directory which contains the required URL rewriting rules.

Configure PHP

Banshee needs PHP's MySQL, XML/XSLT and GD module. Use the following PHP settings:

allow_url_include = Off
cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0 (when using FastCGI PHP), 1 (otherwise)
date.timezone = <your timezone>
magic_quotes_gpc = Off
register_globals = Off

Configure your database

Open the website in your browser and follow the instructions on your screen. In case of an error, add /setup to the URL.

Configure Cronjob

Configure cronjob to run the script database/backup_database once per day.

Configure Banshee

Go to the Settings page in the CMS and replace the present e-mail addresses with your own. Before going live, set the DEBUG_MODE flag in settings/website.conf to 'no'.