Installing Mura CMS: an Open Source ColdFusion Content Management System
If you haven't heard about Mura CMS yet, then you probably haven't been looking for a ColdFusion-powered content management system (CMS). The best part about Mura CMS is that fact that it's open source. Yep, that means free!
After poking around and actually building, then launching a site driven by Mura CMS, I became pretty hooked. So to help other developers who might be considering Mura CMS, I threw together a quick video tutorial on installing Mura.
As you can see, it's most definitely not rocket science. If you have any questions or suggestions, please don't hesitate to let me know!
Peace.
1. When you create your first site, it's easiest to simply leave the "default" site blank, and use the "Add new site" feature. This is because each time you add a new site, Mura CMS makes a copy of the files in the "default" directory for the new site, so if you leave the default site empty, your new sites have a clean start (also makes creating a new site faster since there's not extensive file copying going on).
2. In the video, you showed how you can log out to hide the Front-End Editing Toolbar. You can also show/hide it by clicking on the Mura logo on the Toolbar - that way you can get it out of the way, but you don't have to keep logging in/out to show or hide it.
I would still create a new site even if you only have one site per Mura install and leave the default site alone. With new versions of Mura, there may be new (and/or improved) content objects in the /default site directory. So when you upgrade, you can just upgrade the entire /default directory and copy any new content objects you may want to use into your real site directory. If you use /default for your live site, it might be more of a pain to upgrade since you'll probably want to get any new content objects without mistakenly overwriting any customizations you made to your site. Just my 2c.
You can use any framework with Mura ... even though the front-end is Model-Glue and the back-end is Fusebox. (The fact they've continued to use both frameworks does frustrate me a bit though.) However, you could use ColdBox, Mach-ii or any other framework if you wish. Or, obviously, you could simply leverage what's already there.
I agree it would be nice to maybe see a comparison between the two.
they also seem to favor MG by allowing you to include your own sub-app using their built-in Mura tag: [mura]dspInclude('display_objects/customModelGlueApp/index.cfm')[/mura]
now i could be wrong ... but it sure smells like MG to me.
I must point out that now with plugins you will start to see examples where the sub app no longer lives in the site's includes directory, rather examples where it is installed as a plugin and lives in the /plugins/ directory.
Hopefully that make sense.
Thanks for taking the time to upload this instructional video. By following your instructions I installed Mura in less than 10 minutes.
Nick
I'm building a site for a friend and he wants to display videos that will open in a similar way of what you have in here. Click an images and open the video with the shadowbox behind. I've tried in MURA, but haven get it to work. Is this is something you build within the MURA CSM or something else.
Again thanks for the videos.
~Cheers
I'm sure this wouldn't be too difficult to do in Mura either, but I'm just using an image i created + Shadowbox (http://www.shadowbox-js.com/) + JW FLV Player (http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player...)