tCMS

tCMS

A flexible perl CMS which supports multiple data models and content types. Should be readily portable/hostable between any other system that runs tCMS due to being largely self-contained.

tCMS is built fully around ubuntu hosts at the moment.

Deployment is currently:

• make -f Installer.mk depend
• make -f Installer.mk install

Then:

• open tmux or screen
• sudo ./tcms OR (if you want tCMS as a systemd service for the current user):
• make install-service

This sets up nginx, reverse proxy and SSL certs for you. You must set up the user which runs tCMS to have the primary group www-data if you want to be able to run without sudo or run as a usermode service. It is strongly suggested that you chmod everything but the run/ directory to be 0700, particularly in a shared environment.

It also sets up the mailserver and DNS for you.

You should add the pdns group to the user you use to run tCMS, so that the zone management features will work.

A Dockerfile and deployment scripts are provided for your convenience in building/running containers based on this:

# Build and run the server
./fulldeploy.sh
# Just run the server with latest changes
./dockerdeploy.sh
# Extract configuration & local data, then spin down the server
./docker-exfil.sh

There is also podman container code; see images/README.md

The user guide is self-hosted; After you first login, hit the 'Manual' section in the backend.

Rate-Limiting is expected to be handled at the level of the webserver proxying requests to this application. See ufw/setup-rules as an example of the easy way to setup rules/limiting for all the services you need to run tCMS.

Migration of tCMS1 sites

See migrate.pl, and modify the $docroot variable appropriately

Content Types

Content templates are modular. Add in a template to www/templates/html/components/forms which describe the content and how to edit it. Our post data storage being JSON allows us the flexibility to have any kind of meta associated with posts, so go hog wild.

Currently supported:

• Microblogs
• Blogs
• Files (Video/Audio/Images/Other)
• About Pages
• Post Series
• Presentations

Planned development:

• LaTeX
• Test Plans / Issues (crossover with App::Prove::Elasticsearch)

Embedding Posts within other Posts

If you know a Post's ID (see the numbers at the end of it's URI when viewing it's permalink denoted by the chain emoji) You can embed template logic into your posts like so:

<: embed(12345, 'embed') :>

The first parameter is the ID number of the post. The second parameter is the formatting style:

• embed : default, shows the post with a recessed border as an excerpt.
• media : only show media portion of the post, if any.
• inline : show everything about the post, save for the title.

These will be added as classes to the embedded post, so you can theme this appropriately.

Data Models

• DUMMY - A JSON blob. Used for testing mostly, but could be handy for very small sites.
• Flat File - Pretty much the tCMS1 data model; a migration script is forthcoming

Planned Development:

• Elasticsearch - Documents are ideally indexed in a search engine, should be nice and fast too.
• Git - More for the APE crossover

Supported PSGI servers

Starman and uWSGI

In production, I would expect you to run under uWSGI, and the tcms-uwsgi command in the TLD runs this. Otherwise, you can run tcms to start starman normally.

Ideas to come:

domain picker at top -- manage all your web properties from one place

login and registration (forces email for a domain to allow posting on said domain) User data also stored in ES -- it's their profile page!

Error and Access logs immediately dumped into ES for EZ viewing in grafana

Automatic analytics!

Multiple auth models (ldap, oauth etc)

Builtin paywall -- add in LDAP users not on primary domain, give differing privs Have all content able to assign to paywall packages

One click share to social via oauth Mailing list blasts for paywall content