I'm looking for a blogging tool - preferably freeware - that can be used within an enterprise. This is to be used mainly for knowledge management, sharing of information, email updates, etc. Should have a good search function and security features.
I'm not sure I can setup LJ to do this. Does anyone know of other tools that are available? Movable Type? WordPress? Any pointers on how to set it up easily?
That was fast! Thanks, Kiran. Will check out Plone and maybe WordPress initially.
ReplyDeletePlone's no good; as Jace said, commenting sys isn't as good as LJ.
ReplyDeleteOne thing that you could do for searching is to maintain another DB—only for the purpose of searching. Whenever, somebody posts, use the RSS feed to update the DB. Not very good, but will work.
If this information helps, I run wordpress on my machine with windows2000 professional for my technical notekeeping. I run this on IIS server, MySQL database and obviously PHP. It nearly took around 5-7 hours to make everything work together (yes there were a few issues), including tweaking the css.
ReplyDeleteWhenever, somebody posts...
ReplyDeleteYikes! The comma's incorrect, sorry.
Go with wordpress, and I may be able to help you out. I have been helping with wordpress development for a while now, and am well versed with it.
ReplyDeleteLike Firefox, wordpress comes with a slew of plugins that can help you set things up exactly the way you want, and boy, is it neat!!
Give me a list of features and I will give you a list of plugins, most of which are real easy to install - like - upload and click "activate".
Wordpress installation takes 5 minutes, if the mysql table and php is available. Installing on IIS servers is easy too but might perhaps give a few problems since most (90%) of wordpress blogs run on *nix, but we can figure it out easily.
A commercial, multi-author movabletype installation will cost you a lot of money.
Let me know how it goes :)
dont think Wordpress supports multiple blogs, though you could categorise information.
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Have you tried out wiki ? You can try out zwiki (http://www.zwiki.org/). It allows you to post comments and you can receive some or all wiki changes by email (http://www.zwiki.org/Chapter05WikiMail). Does not have the search feature.
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It does help. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteActually, ZWiki does have search. You just have to figure out how to turn it on.
ReplyDeleteCool, thanks a ton. Will try it out and keep you (ahem) posted.
ReplyDeleteThanks. I think I'll go with WordPress for now and then turn to Zwiki if it flops.
ReplyDeleteSo I installed mysql, php and then wordpress. But after doing the install.php step, launching the wp-login.php doesn't work. It just displays some code, not the login page.
ReplyDeleteI know I'm doing something utterly dumb here, but can't figure out exactly what.
Is that mysqll error output or the php code?
ReplyDeletehttp://wordpress.org/support is a motherlode of info, chances are someone might have had that problem before.
I hang out at the forums a lot and will respond there too.
Too complex, have reached my limit of 4 hours. Sorry, giving up!
ReplyDeleteWhats the problem you are getting? any screenshots?
ReplyDeleteCan't get beyond install.php in wordpress. Gives me a lot of stuff on the page which I couldn't figure out.
ReplyDeleteThanks for asking, but I'd rather drop the whole thing altogether and move on. Spent enough time on it already.
I've heard good things about ExpressionEngine ( http://www.pmachine.com/expressionengine/ )
ReplyDeleteIt's not free ($150) but I think it could do everything you want. There's also a 14-day trial available.
Maybe you could weigh in? http://www.livejournal.com/users/laruth/288619.html
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