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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 6.2.2.

Getting OpenCms Up and Running

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

• Configuration
  • xml-system-configs explained
  • Creating a new site
  • opencms as / with APache + modjk (or mod_proxy)
  • MultiSite configuration instructions
  • Securing the site - implementing your security policy
  • Removing OpenCMS documents and non-essential components - What to keep

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

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

• 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

• 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

Using/Maintaining my installation of OpenCMS

• Using the Workplace
  • Boy Howdy on this one. good luck.

• Workflow
  • anyone used this

• 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

Help

• Opencms Forums - http://www.opencms-forum.de/opencms-forum/index
• Mailing List Archives - http://www.opencms.org/opencms/en/development/mailinglist-archive.html

• Development tips
  • Eclipse integration
  • Ftpd module
  • That synch with external directory thing

• Hints & tips
• Wishlist

Extending Opencms

• Advanced Customization
  • Advanced module config
  • Action classes

• Third Party Integration
  • spring
  • hibernate
  • struts
  • jbpm
  • mvnForum
  • other j2ee stuff
  • jmx

• Advanced development topics
  • core stuff
  • event handling

• Common HowTos
  • Anyone? Bueller? Bueller