Recommendations for simple LAMP portal/CMS software?

[BroadArrow]

Does anyone have any recommendations for simple high-level LAMP based portal/CMS software?

I'm wanting to install a simple portal on my home network server which all the computers at home can use as their home page. The portal would have simple blocks like weather forecasts, bookmarks to websites we frequently use, maybe a calendar (ideally picking up calendar data from a Google Calendar), &c.

However, the key is that it is easy to manage (from my point of view as a sysadmin) and for end users (the rest of the family) to use -- otherwise it won't be worth doing and we might as well use iGoogle as a home page...

Any ideas?

PS: I looked at LifeRay (I know it's Java based but it looks nice) but it doesn't appear to be able to run on Apache2 which is what I'm running on the server for other purposes.

[joewilliams]

take a look at Joomla!
http://www.joomla.org/
I'm doing the same thing with it on an ubuntu server

[piers]

Or try before you install at http://opensourcecms.com/ They keep up to date with versions and let you try out the admin and user side of all of the main CMS systems.

Just click on Portals from down the left hand side.

[BroadArrow]

take a look at Joomla!
http://www.joomla.org/
I'm doing the same thing with it on an ubuntu server

Thanks for that. I'll have a look at it.

[BroadArrow]

Or try before you install at http://opensourcecms.com/ They keep up to date with versions and let you try out the admin and user side of all of the main CMS systems.

Just click on Portals from down the left hand side.

Thanks for that. I had seen that site, but without some recommendations to get me starting it's an overwhelming list of possibilities to consider. There seem to be a lot of CMS systems out there but finding a quality user-friendly system that is being actively maintained isn't so easy!

[az]

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Drupal

[Tomas_IV]

In addition to Joomla (which I'm going to try yet) and Drupal (which I tried, but I personally did not liked the philosophy of it), I would recommend to consider also WordPress http://wordpress.org/, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WordPress.

[BroadArrow]

In addition to Joomla (which I'm going to try yet) and Drupal (which I tried, but I personally did not liked the philosophy of it), I would recommend to consider also WordPress http://wordpress.org/, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WordPress.

Thanks for that. I have used WordPress before for blogs but am looking for something a little less blog-centric.

[BroadArrow]

take a look at Joomla!
http://www.joomla.org/
I'm doing the same thing with it on an ubuntu server

OK, I've installed Joomla and am giving it a whirl. It's a lot more complicated than what I was after but seems flexible and well-supported enough to make it worthwhile climbing the steep learning curve, even though I'm not having much luck installing some of the modules and components I'm wanting to use!

[joewilliams]

the Joomla forums are full of good information and helpful people. The manual should be your first stop...look HERE (http://help.joomla.org/images/User_manual/user_manual_v1%200%201_10%2021%2006.pdf) for the 1.0 manual and HERE (http://help.joomla.org/content/section/47/280/) for the admin manual.

[BroadArrow]

the Joomla forums are full of good information and helpful people. The manual should be your first stop...look HERE (http://help.joomla.org/images/User_manual/user_manual_v1%200%201_10%2021%2006.pdf) for the 1.0 manual and HERE (http://help.joomla.org/content/section/47/280/) for the admin manual.

Thanks for that. I will do, once I've gathered my thoughts and decided which components I want to put the effort into!