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Title: recommendations wanted for lightweight, secure CMS
Post by: Rooftop on November 08, 2014, 03:41:15 PM
I've got a little side project brewing that I'm looking for a CMS for.
Main considerations are that it is lightweight and secure without needing frequent updates (it WILL be targeted).
I should just hand code HTML but I'm too lazy to keep links updated these days.

The content will be somewhere between a blog and a wiki.
Title: Re: recommendations wanted for lightweight, secure CMS
Post by: rcjordan on November 08, 2014, 05:57:49 PM
I will post these because they've been in my watchlist for a few years now. But I have no experience with them.

http://www.razorcms.co.uk/

http://gpeasy.com/
Title: Re: recommendations wanted for lightweight, secure CMS
Post by: Drastic on November 09, 2014, 05:05:26 PM
There were 4-6 blogging scripts that use flatfiles instead of mysql when I looked ~3 years ago. I tested them all out and picked one or two but never put them into use. I plan to soon though for some new projects.

Pivotx and flatpress come to mind. Flat press was last updated a year ago so that's out. Pivotx last updated Aug 25 this year, minor security update. There are more, maybe newer options and I'll be investigating.
Title: Re: recommendations wanted for lightweight, secure CMS
Post by: rcjordan on November 09, 2014, 05:09:07 PM
Pivotx was tops in my cms bookmarks at one time.  I don't know why i dropped them but, I agree, def worth a look.
Title: Re: recommendations wanted for lightweight, secure CMS
Post by: Rooftop on November 09, 2014, 10:25:46 PM
Thanks all. Some good starting points there.
Title: Re: recommendations wanted for lightweight, secure CMS
Post by: littleman on November 10, 2014, 06:14:36 PM
Pivotx looks pretty nice, thanks.
Title: Re: recommendations wanted for lightweight, secure CMS
Post by: Rooftop on November 10, 2014, 08:54:44 PM
Some nice options above, but all possibly overkill for my needs. Is happily forgo 90% of the features for being inherently more secure without frequent updates.
Maybe I should just stick to html
Title: Re: recommendations wanted for lightweight, secure CMS
Post by: littleman on November 10, 2014, 09:34:29 PM
>Maybe I should just stick to html

http://www.modernstatic.com/ might be a place to look.
Title: Re: recommendations wanted for lightweight, secure CMS
Post by: ergophobe on November 11, 2014, 03:17:33 AM
See my posts at the end of this thread - haven't tried any of these, but since they work by generating them locally and pushing them out via rsync or git or something, they shouldn't be "hackable" in the sense that they shouldn't be executable.

http://www.webmasterworld.com/content_management/4413562.htm
Title: Re: recommendations wanted for lightweight, secure CMS
Post by: rcjordan on November 11, 2014, 01:08:12 PM
> HTML but I'm too lazy to keep links updated these days

At the very least, I'd write a site template in php and do the header/footers/nav as includes
Title: Re: recommendations wanted for lightweight, secure CMS
Post by: Rooftop on November 12, 2014, 04:14:38 PM
Paranoia has gotten the better of me on this one.  I'm probably going for desktop editor and PHP includes for the nav.  I'll just keep the structure flat and crawl the site periodically for broken links.  The main concession to security beyond that will be not being tempted to add any of my dodgy code to the site.