What is e107 ?
e107 is an Advanced Content Publishing Solution for Website Pages, Documents, Menus and Links (Content Management System) powered by PHP, MySQL and Prototype, which gives you a totally dynamic and professional website "out of the box". It's open-source (free), easily customized and doesn't require any knowledge of programming languages in order to use it. It is simple to use for a novice and yet powerful and flexible enough to meet the needs of professionals.
Key Features:
- Easy and Fast Installation via Fully automated, intuitive system install wizard
- User Registration system (automated or manually approved)
- Single-Sign-On (Shared/Shareable Login Database) capability
- Simple, Intuitive Administrative Interface
- Fully Integrated User-Class (permissions) System
- Run your Site in Multiple Languages
- Security Tools
- News/Blog/Poll/Event Posting & Syndication
- Rotating Banner Advertising System
- Discussion Forum
- Event Calendar
- RSS & Newsfeeds
- Poll
- Email Notifications
- User-to-User Private Messaging
- WYSIWYG editing
- Flexible Plugin Architecture (unlimited possibilities)
- Easy Theme/Templating System
- Simple Update Procedure for the CMS Core, Plugins and Themes
- Mature (established over 9 years) but Constantly Developing
What are the basic requirements to run e107?
- A Web-Server (Apache or Microsoft IIS) running PHP 4.x or 5.x and MySQL 4.x or 5.x.
- FTP access to your webserver and an ftp program such as Filezilla .
Many shared-hosting providers offer the above features for as little as $5 per month.
What is the recommended setup for e107?
- A Linux based Webserver running Apache 2.x, PHP 5.3 or higher, MySQL 5.0 or higher. (LAMP)
- A Registered Domain Name
- Access to a Server Control Panel (such as cPanel)
How do I get started?
- Download and upload the contents of the e107 CMS Full Zip file to your webserver via FTP.
- Configure a Database Account for e107 via your server's control panel (or ask your hosting provider to create a database and send you the database-name, username/password).
- Navigate to your domain address which will open the 6 step installation wizard
- Using your FTP client, delete the install file and secure your configuration file.
