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Welcome to the OpenCms Wiki

OpenCms is a professional level Open Source Website Content Management System. You can find more information about OpenCms on the project homepage.

The current version of OpenCms is 6.2.3. Read the release notes.

If you are a newbie or new to this wiki you should take a look at the FAQ page.

Getting OpenCms Up and Running

Installation

• Hardware requirements
• Finding and installing the prerequisites
• Database Setup
• App server related topics
• Post-installation checkout

Configuration

• Important Configuration Files
• Importing Existing Data
• Defining OpenCMS structured XML content
• Removing /opencms/opencms from site url
• MultiSite configuration instructions
• Securing the site - implementing your security policy
• Removing OpenCMS documents and non-essential components - What to keep
• Changing the default request encoding
• Changing from Servlet 2.3 to Servlet 2.4 (JSP 2.0)

Performance Tuning

• Load Balancing with Alkacon Clustering OCEE
• Static Export configuration
• Flex Cache tuning
• Clustering OpenCms

Using / Maintaining an installation of OpenCms

• Backing up OpenCms

Using the Workplace

• Explorer view
• FCKEditor
• Administration view

Workflow

• Workflow in core OpenCms
• Workflow using third party workflow engines

Admin Tools/Maintenance Tools

• Project Management
• Account Management
• Database Management
• Module Management
• File History
• Link Validation
• Gallery Overview
• Search Management
• Scheduled Jobs Management
• Flex Cache Administration
• Content Tools
• Workplace Tools

User Management

• How to create a restricted area on your homepage

Security

• Authentication per Page
• Https/SSL

Help

• OpenCms Website
• Official Mailing List Archives
• Mailing List Archive at Nabble.com (Good search function and threaded display)
• Managing and Customizing OpenCMS 6 A book about OpenCms administration and usage

Demo

• german Demo of OpenCms 6.2
• A demo of OpenCms 6.2 provide Flash games from China

Forums

• OpenCms Forum
• German OpenCms forum
• another forum on OpenCms
• The first OpenCms forum in Spanish

Additional sites with OpenCms documentation:

• an older Wiki about OpenCms
• OpenCms documentation project at sourceforge
• German documentation for OpenCms Users
• Javadoc and browsable source code
• OpenCmsHispano the first Spanish Community
• OpenCms Developer and Support Chat Room

Alkacon Opencms Documentation Modules

• v6.2.2

Third Party Integration and Modules

• Integration HOWTOs
• Available Modules and Extensions

What Can OpenCms Do

Overview

• OpenCms philosophy
• OpenCms terminology
• Introduction to the OpenCms application structure and tools
• Alternative site structures
• Planning and documenting your site
• Best Practices
• Other Overview Guides

• OpenCms Reference Sites

Template Development

• basics and overview
• lessons learned
• common and frequent mistakes, NPEs
• oc-taglibrary specifics
• Building from Scratch
• Using existing Template One
• Other example templates
• The Ubuntu Framework for a kickstart into template development

Search

• Configuration
• Sample search results pages
• common mistakes
• writing only specific xml-element-data to the lucene index
• lucene related: writing custom analyzers, stemmers, documents

Other Major Features

• XMLContent
• Localization / Multilanguage / I18N

Trouble Shooting

• HTTP 404 with OpenCms URLs
• Log Settings

Writing JSP and developing in OpenCms

Jsp Basics

• Basic Steps to writing JSPs
• Including your template elements within your JSPs
• Using Direct Edit with JSP
• OpenCms features available via taglibs
• OpenCms features javadoc
• OpenCms downloadable sample modules
• How Opencms Handles jsp - Advanced

Development Process-Best Practices

• Transferring an existing website to a different server

Development Environment Setup

• Synchronizing with Ant
• Debugging

Development tips

• Eclipse integration
• Ftpd module
• Synchronization with external directories
• Remote debugging OpenCms with Eclipse and Netbeans

Extending OpenCms

Module Development

• Development Lifecycle
• Action classes
• Create Module HowTo
• Advanced module config
• Available Open Source Modules
• Available Commercial Modules

Advanced Customization

• Custom Login Page
• Custom File and Folder Types
• Custom Views
• Custom Widgets
• Custom XML Content Validation

Admin Tools

• Adding Admin Tools

Advanced development topics

• core stuff
• event handling
• acegi integration

Common HowTos

• RSS

The future development of OpenCms

• Wishlist
• Development Roadmap