[Imc-web] Re: [Imc] Some notes on the UCIMC site migration

Wendy Edwards wedwards at uiuc.edu
Mon Sep 11 16:30:49 CDT 2006


That really looks nice.  Anything I can do to help?

Wendy

On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 01:08:27PM -0500, David Gehrig wrote:
> Folks -- the code that runs the UCIMC site, dada, is old and unwieldy,
> requires the Apache web server to be restarted every hour, and it gets hit
> by nearly nine hundred spams a day.  The site editors have finally gotten
> sick enough of it that we've decided to move to a new software package, an
> open-source "content management system" called Drupal.  We're now setting up
> a test/development site, which will become the new UCIMC site.
> 
> For the curious:
> 
> http://new.ucimc.org
> 
> That's a test site, very similar to what the final result will be.  But
> there are still some missing pieces, and it's time to start a discussion
> about them.
> 
> I'd like to have discussion of the new site and development on the UCIMC
> wiki, including a consensus when it's time to switch over and what to do
> about what's on the dada site:
> 
> http://www.ucimc.org/wiki/index.php/Drupal_Migration
> 
> For more about drupal:
> 
> http://www.drupal.org
> 
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