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Hirvesh
Hirvesh

Reputation: 7982

Is is possible to build a cms without using any scripting language on the serverside?

I wanted to know if there is a way to build a CMS using no scripting language on the serverside, i.e. only use server to store data?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 969

Answers (3)

Nicolas
Nicolas

Reputation: 2186

CMS stands for "Content Management System". It's basically an organized way to store your content, with some productivity tools (UI, workflows, ...)

Your server can be seen as a CMS :

  • The http server provides various authentication schemes
  • The http server provides encrypting (via https)
  • The filesystem allows you to create, read, update and delete files.
  • The filesystem provides a way to manage user (and even groups) rights on these files.
  • The filesystem allows you to organize your files in folders
  • The filesystem even allows you to reference files in several folders (via symlinks)

So yes, you can use your server as a CMS. All you have to do is define rules for your content management :

  • folders organisation
  • files naming conventions
  • files format conventions
  • ...

Upvotes: 2

falstro
falstro

Reputation: 35687

I suppose it depends on what you define as a CMS. If you just want user authentication, displaying web pages, then this is quite possible to do with a static-serving web server (Assuming it supports authentication mechanisms and SSL).

If you want stuff to be searchable, you'll need SOMETHING server side doing the indexing (the actual search can still be done client side by downloading relevant index files). Or tap into Google, but this only works if you have no security requirements.

If you want to be able to upload stuff, your server needs to handle this as well.

Without specifying exactly what you're looking for, there's no way to answer this question.

Upvotes: 2

zerkms
zerkms

Reputation: 255135

Theoretically - yes, but you'll not be able to make it secured.

Upvotes: 3

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