MeshCMS

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MeshCMS is an online editing system written in Java. It provides a set of features usually included in a CMS, but it uses a more traditional approach: pages are stored in regular HTML files and all additional features are file-based, without needing a database.

MeshCMS has been thought as a quick tool to edit pages online, manage files and create some common components like menus, breadcrumbs, mail forms, image galleries and so on. It requires few resources: the default 64MB heap is enough to host a dozen of sites.

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Ratan
(Mar 4, 2008 11:41 AM)


hi

This is nice for easy to use for website.

Yaina_UCV
(Apr 4, 2008 9:29 PM)

Hello

I could tell them where a tutorial on how to use the system handler content. Thanks
Bryan
(Apr 18, 2008 4:45 PM)

When I extracted the files to set up MeshCMS and double-clicked the bat file a command prompt appeared with listening on port 8080. But when I go to localhost:8080 it never seems to find it. It seems so simple. Am I doing something wrong?
Steve
(Apr 28, 2008 3:14 AM)

Would you update User Guide to show how to require visitor to enter a random string of letters/numbers to submit an email in the Mail Form? There are so much spams exploits going on nowdays.
Luciano Vernaschi
(Apr 28, 2008 7:38 AM)


Steve,

it is not possible at the moment, it only works in the Comments module. I will consider adding it asap.

Steve
(May 8, 2008 2:43 PM)

Luciano, for SEO purpose, which is very important these days, would you allow each page has its own Title, Keywords, Description etc META fields? Currently MeshCMS would try to put the same site Keywords, Description META tags into every single page. This is not good at all. If you specify customer META Keywords or Description for a page, the result page rendered actually has two META Keywords and Description entries, one from the site default and the other from your custom header.
Luciano Vernaschi
(May 8, 2008 3:05 PM)


@Steve

MeshCMS does not analyze the HEAD content, so it can't detect if meta tags are already there. It's up to you to decide if use the global description and keywords, or put meta tags in single pages. I understand that it's quite ugly to use a simple textarea to edit the head, but a different approach would require splitting the head into pieces, which is not that easy in some cases (consider pages with scripts and so on).

Steve
(May 8, 2008 8:09 PM)

There is still the issue of two sets Keywords and Description META tags when the site meta tags are left blank and pages' META tags in the text area are filled out. The empty set of Keywords and Description tag is coming from the default site Keywords and Description. Maybe you can put in a IF statement to output the default Keywords and Description META tags only when they are not blank? Thanks.
Luciano Vernaschi
(May 9, 2008 8:53 AM)


@Steve

you can still remove meta tags from the theme. Mixed approaches are not currently supported: you must choose between global tags or per-page ones.

Rodrigo Amorim
(Sep 12, 2008 2:31 PM)

Is it possible to have Mesh CMS export XML files with the same content as the HTML pages? I'm looking to build a Flash interface with accessible, SEO-friendly HTML content (using Javascript SWFObject to replace the HTML with Flash on the browser). However, I want to use Mesh as a CMS, and have Flash dynamically pull the content off XML files. Would it be possible to have MESH export the same content as both HTML and XML?
Luciano Vernaschi
(Sep 14, 2008 7:00 AM)

@Rodrigo You need a different CMS to do that. Choose one that records information in a more structured way, since MeshCMS uses pure HTML pages as information units, making it difficult to convert content.
ozkey
(Sep 23, 2008 8:21 AM)
I want to upgrade to tomcat 6.
Can the issue with tomcat be fixed?
Luciano Vernaschi
(Sep 23, 2008 4:34 PM)
@ozkey

it is fixed on SVN, but not released yet. If you can compile MeshCMS from SVN, you can already upgrade. I'm still testing other changes before releasing.
ozkey
(Sep 24, 2008 2:46 AM)
THANK YOU for the great work you do
Frans
(Oct 1, 2008 6:31 PM)
Thank you very much for your work. Meshcms is the easiest cms, very very user friendly.
I 've question: Is it possible to combine with wicket framework?
Luciano Vernaschi
(Oct 2, 2008 6:55 AM)
@Frans

You should implement your custom mapping from HTML to Wicket pages.

Btw, Wicket is one of the frameworks being evaluated to create the new interface in MeshCMS 4 (which is in early stage of development).
Benjamin
(Oct 29, 2008 10:10 AM)
Hi!

Is it possible to do a form post via method="POST"? It looks like MeshCMS eats up all POST parameters, so that I can't evaluate them in my modules.

Thanks for your reply!
Nancy
(Nov 14, 2008 12:01 AM)
Really great job!! Many thanks. I hope that you implement wicket on the next meshcms version.
Luciano Vernaschi
(Nov 14, 2008 11:42 AM)
@Nancy

It might happen, although I have not decided yet. I used it at work and I liked it, I'm just testing other possible solutions before making the choice.
wangyongjin
(Nov 19, 2008 2:33 PM)
good

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MeshCMS 3.4.1
(Nov 6, 2008)
MeshCMS 3.4.1 has been released to fix the issue with Tomcat 6.0.18 and 5.5.27. MeshCMS 3.5 is still under development.
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(Sep 2, 2008)
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