Posts in category ‘Progress’.
Asp.Mono in Linux? Not Yet...
During development of CppCMS I have always wanted to do some benchmarks against one of the most popular web development technologies: Asp.Net. I had found a blogging system: BlogEngine.Net that in its latest version had full support of mono under Linux, support of MySQL — all I need to run benchmarks against CppCMS.
The beginning was promising. The instructions were simple, there was an actual blog running BE.Net under Apache mod_mono on Ubuntu. There were Linux specific instructions as well.
So, first of all I had installed mono 1.9.1 from Etch backports. The first problem I had to deal with was an installation problem — the version of C# compiler and mono environment were different. This was solved quite simply. So, I could finally see BE.Net running under Mono using XML as data storage backend.
Then, I wanted to add MySQL storage backend. The problems had come very soon. The MySQL database script was written under assumption that table names are case insensitive. That was not true for MySQL under Linux. This problem was fixed.
more...First Beta Version of CppCMS is Out!
First beta version is avalibile under LGPL 2.1 from SourceForge.
It includes:
- CppCMS Framework
- Templates System
- DbiXX SQL Layer
- Examples of usage
Good Luck!
API Changes and mod-prefork
There have been lot of work in recent weeks in order to make deep internal changes in the framework. Now they include:
- Transparent support of 3 web server APIs: fastcgi, cgi and scgi.
- Support of new mod prefork that allows safer management of worker processes.
- Implementation of a cache that is shared between forked processes.
A new name for CppCMS Project?
Now it is clear for me that CppCMS is not quite successful name for this project. Manys think that it is rather Content Management System like Drupal written in C++, then A C++ Web Development like Django that allows you to write CMS.
So think is it worth to change the name of the project to something other? If so what name to choose?
Building CppCMS
I had not published any official alpha or beta release yet, however, anyone who wants to use it can install the framework quite easily (I think).
There are three major parts of the framework:
- Templates support module – libtmpl or templates subproject.
- C++ Wrapper for dbi DB access library – libdbixx or dbixx subproject
- Base framework – libcppcms or framework subproject.
- This blog – an example how to use CppCMS or cms subproject
Thus in order to install the system we need to do following:
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