Anyone know of a goof offline CMS?

[Nautilus]

We need a CMS like Joomla or any other but the one that could work offline - it will be on several of our computers and not available offline. The simpler the better.

Min requirements:

1. Add/remove articles (with the ability to embed photos and videos in the article).
2. Photo/video galleries.
3. Sync feature.

[candyflip]

Originally Posted by Nautilus

We need a CMS like Joomla or any other but the one that could work offline - it will be on several of our computers and not available offline. The simpler the better.

Min requirements:

1. Add/remove articles (with the ability to embed photos and videos in the article).
2. Photo/video galleries.
3. Sync feature.

You can do this with Joomla or most other CMS. You just need Apache, PHP and MYSQL running on your local machine.

This here will help:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/

[Lycanthrope]

Aye, just set up a server of sorts with an older box. Give it a static IP on your local LAN - lets say it is 192.168.1.100 and its host name is "zeus". Edit each workstation's hosts file accordingly and every workstation will be able to access it via http://zeus/ it sounds like you want a script that is functional yet easy to setup and use - maybe checkout Zen Photo with the Zen Page plugin: http://www.zenphoto.org/

[Nautilus]

Originally Posted by candyflip

You can do this with Joomla or most other CMS. You just need Apache, PHP and MYSQL running on your local machine.

This here will help:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/

Tried it and it didn't work - guess I fucked up with something but I need something really simple, which would just work like a normal program, launched with one click. People who will be using it are not PC geeks to launch php and mysql at their laptops.

[Nautilus]

Originally Posted by Lycanthrope

Aye, just set up a server of sorts with an older box. Give it a static IP on your local LAN - lets say it is 192.168.1.100 and its host name is "zeus". Edit each workstation's hosts file accordingly and every workstation will be able to access it via http://zeus/ it sounds like you want a script that is functional yet easy to setup and use - maybe checkout Zen Photo with the Zen Page plugin: http://www.zenphoto.org/

The problem is that those computers are not in our local LAN - they will be used at various locations (where we shooting content) and quite likely it would be impossible to even connect them to the internet for some sort of VPN (at the outdoor shoots for example).

That's why we need something that is already installed and working at their computers and not dependent on the internet or LAN or any other connection.

[polle54]

Originally Posted by Nautilus

The problem is that those computers are not in our local LAN - they will be used at various locations (where we shooting content) and quite likely it would be impossible to even connect them to the internet for some sort of VPN (at the outdoor shoots for example).

That's why we need something that is already installed and working at their computers and not dependent on the internet or LAN or any other connection.

Well what you are looking for is a desktop application, not a webapplication...
I've never heard of a desktop CMS app.

[Nautilus]

Originally Posted by polle54

Well what you are looking for is a desktop application, not a webapplication...
I've never heard of a desktop CMS app.

Yep, exactly. Or a very easy way to launch web applications on the desktop.

[candyflip]

Originally Posted by Nautilus

Or a very easy way to launch web applications on the desktop.

They call this a web browser.

[Nautilus]

Originally Posted by candyflip

They call this a web browser.

Yes I sorta know But neither web application will simply work if you load it in the browser. You'd need things like the one you recommended to emulate apache and stuff - it just needs to be more simple.

Or, even better, a desktop application - sorta ACDSee but with comments and articles.

[jono]

Try CMS Simple
http://www.cmsimple.com

[candyflip]

Originally Posted by Nautilus

Yes I sorta know But neither web application will simply work if you load it in the browser. You'd need things like the one you recommended to emulate apache and stuff - it just needs to be more simple.

Or, even better, a desktop application - sorta ACDSee but with comments and articles.

Do a search for something called Server2Go. That's about as easy as it gets running Apache/PHP/MySQL in Windows.

[Nautilus]

Originally Posted by candyflip

Do a search for something called Server2Go. That's about as easy as it gets running Apache/PHP/MySQL in Windows.

That worked! Thank you so much.

[candyflip]

Originally Posted by Nautilus

That worked! Thank you so much.

No sweat.