On Thursday, July 7, 2016 at 7:35:08 AM UTC-4, Jim Spoerl wrote:
>
> Hi all.
>
> I am very frustrated, I must say.  After several weeks of work (and 
> reading and re-reading all that I have found online), I simply cannot get 
> installed a working environment.  I do now have the latest stable release 
> of web2py installed along with nginx and uwsgi.  That works as a framework 
> just fine.  I played with the builtin wiki and found that instructive as 
> far as understanding how this all fits together.  I am very impressed with 
> that.
>
> But as a shortcut (I am pretty new with python, admittedly), I have tried 
> some of the referenced appliances in the repo including, finally, outside 
> the repo,  Instant Press.  It was promising but it simply throws a lot of 
> exceptions as you start to use it.  It also has not been maintained and 
> will not run without a lot of errors on the latest web2py (like KPax2, just 
> doesn't run any longer).
>
> None of the CMS-like apps work currently on web2py  having not been 
> maintained for years.  Where is that "backwards compatibility" when you 
> need it?
>
> So, I am looking for a quicker start by using someone's work to begin 
> with.  What I want to build is a very simple site to start with (a CMS, 
> basically, including groups, a blog, etc., and with support for streaming 
> audio). 
>
> I do not want to go the route of Django-CMS or something like that.  I do 
> hope to stick with web2py.  
>
> But I am very discouraged.  I am NOT looking for something like Joomla or 
> Drupal - I have done that before already and for years getting boxed into 
> something that was incredibly unwieldy and large.
>
> I hope someone can give me some pointers.   /Jim
>

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