[oll-user] Ideas about simple content management system

[Urs L. <ul...@op...>]

Hi folks,

the first 'real' message from me to this list.
Please ignore if you don't feel competent or interested.

I just stumbled over the first (hopefully small) drawback of our sourceforge approach:
While they provide a generous 'project web' they are right now discontinuing their 'hosted apps' feature.
This feature included a wide array of web apps - including for example Content Management Systems - that were hosted and managed by the sourceforge team but could be used for any project.
The project web still allows to install and run a wide array of applications
(see https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Project%20Web%20Services/)
but now one has to install and manage them oneself.

So we have web space (apparently without explicit limits), shell access to that and an array of the usual languages "including PHP (via mod_php), Perl, Python, Tcl, Ruby, and shell scripts. Support for several database platforms is provided, including MySQL (through our Project Database service), DBM, and SQLite."

Unfortunately this means that we (I) have to find a reasonably simple framework/infrastructure to manage the site. But it seems I've already been lucky:
http://www.staceyapp.com/
seems to be ideal, because it looks really lightweight, basically the most rudimentary implementation of a template driven content management system.
Despite any pretension we have about our content, the web site is in the end a rather small project with a quite manageable number of (different) pages.
If stacey does what it pretends it is a small PHP application that takes HTML templates and feeds them with content that is stored in plain text files. To create additional pages one simply has to add a text file with content. So it is clear that we can maintain the whole site with a git repository.

Anybody any experience with stacey?
Or any other ideas for a lightweight but complete solution I should check out?

Best Urs