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Which I have found through TOO MUCH wasted time, and it is this: Folks who openly dislike native english speakers.
Sounds silly, right ? Trust me, it is neither silly nor trivial and can easily stop you in your tracks. Before trying CMSMS I wasted a bunch of time trying to become a user of Website Baker (and one other before that as well). Trouble is - most of their user-controlled 'help' is non-english speaking and as such they misunderstand and misinterpret things ALOT. Now, add in how easily they are offended and here we have an absolutely perfect recipe for disaster ! How did I discover this? Simple - I'm quite fluent both in my writing and speech and this has resulted in my actually getting banned from the CMSMS forum. If you get the impression that I am please by this you are 100% correct. (I even saved the message to remind me NOT to ever use this or recommend it to anyone in the future !)
No, I am not insane - and here is why: Just installing this CMS and several of it's own modules via their provided XML files caused an error serious enough to stop me dead. I asked for help - waited 2+ days - reposted asking if maybe this error was unknown. BAM ! Nastygrams from the goderator scolding me for my behaviour ? Wow. Now just imagine if my site actually depended upon CMSMS and had been in place for a good while, and something broke, causing me to ask for help, then getting flamed & banned. Nothing quite like having a site rendered useless because of nastiness from someone whose over-inflated ego powerfully resents that they don't really understand english !!! So - another one rides the bus.
No biggy for me, as my site for this is a toy I am playing with to see which is good and which is not. Next I'll try PHP-Fusion and a couple of others with nice, easy auto-installs and see how their help goes if they break from normal things. CMSMS deserves a total avoidance though - that's my 2 cents to share.
Best Wishes to All !
"I have learned to ignore .bz2 files" Try WinRAR - it'll handle bzip fine. 7Zip may also - but I haven't run Windoof for years, so I'm guessing.
"under instructions for mod_rewrite it says no file extension. For Windoza users it might be confusing, try saying no filename instead." Nope they mean what they say. If you have mod_rewrite enabled without setting a page "extension" then "about.php" will show as "about". If you set an "extension" in config.php as ".html" the previous example will show as "about.html".
I suspect the confusion comes from the default Windoof settings that hides file extensions. Windoof uses file extensions eg. create a file with Notepad and save it as "example". It is actually "example.txt" - but unless you enable "show file extension" in settings you'll see it as "example".
To clarify - "filename.extension". The early versions of Windoof had an 8.3 rule, the filename had to be 8 characters or less, and the extension had to be 3 characters or less. It's no longer necessary post-NT, though Microsoft default uses .htm instead of .html for HTML file extensions.
Nice article.
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