Speck CMS - A simple content management system for ColdFusion

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• Getting Started
  • Speck Concepts
  • System Requirements
  • Installing
  • Upgrading
  • Hello Speck!
  • Articles
  • Caching
• Sample Application
  • Installing
  • Displaying Content
  • Managing Content
• Application Configuration
  • Settings
  • Keywords
  • Globalization
  • UI Customisation
• Building Applications
  • Application Initialisation
  • Creating Content Pages
  • Creating Content Types
  • Built-in Content Types
  • Built-in Property Types
  • Event Handlers
  • Context Sensitive Help
• Users and Security
  • Security Files
  • User Sessions
  • Access Control
  • Password Encryption
  • Reserved Roles
• Optimising Performance
  • Output Caching
  • Query Caching
  • Unnecessary Processing
  • Database Performance

Downloading and Installing the Sample Application

Install files

1. Get the latest build of the sample application from http://www.speckcms.org
2. Unpack the sydneyjabiru zip archive into your webapps directory. After doing so, you should have a sydneyjabiru directory inside webapps (e.g. c:\inetpub\webapps\sydneyjabiru)

ColdFusion Administrator Settings

1. Create an Access datasource named "sydneyjabiru" with the database file set to the path to the sydneyjabiru.mdb in your sydneyjabiru directory (e.g. c:\inetpub\webapps\sydneyjabiru\sydneyjabiru.mdb)

Web Server Settings

IIS

1. Modify the home directory of your default web site (or just create a new web site and set the home directory) to "c:\inetpub\webapps\sydneyjabiru\www".
2. Add a "speck" virtual directory at the root of the site and set the local path to "c:\inetpub\webapps\speck\www".

Apache

1. Add a new virtual host with the DocumentRoot set to the www directory within the application, e.g. "c:\inetpub\webapps\sydneyjabiru\www".
2. Add a "/speck" directory alias with the local path set to the www directory within the speck directory , e.g. "c:\inetpub\webapps\speck\www".
   Note: you can create the directory alias outside of the virtual host directive to set it server-wide if you wish.
3. Add default.cfm to the DirectoryIndex (the sample app was written a long time ago and was initially just written with IIS in mind).

Check Application Configuration

Speck reads various configuration settings from files in the /webapps/speck/config directory tree. Open /webapps/speck/config/apps/sydneyjabiru.app and check the appInstallRoot attribute is set appropriately, e.g.

appInstallRoot = c:\inetpub\webapps\sydneyjabiru