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Welcome to the OpenCms Wiki

OpenCms is a professional level Open Source Website Content Management System. You can find more information about OpenCms on the project homepage.

The current version of OpenCms is 7.0.4.

If you are a newbie you should take a look at the OpenCms FAQ.

Getting OpenCms Up and Running

Highlights

• Hardware requirements
• Finding and installing the prerequisites
• Important Configuration Files
• Removing /opencms/opencms from site url
• MultiSite configuration instructions

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Category:Getting OpenCms up and running

Using / Maintaining an installation of OpenCms

Highlights

• Backing up OpenCms
• Project Management
• Account Management
• Database Management

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Category:Using / Maintaining an installation of OpenCms

Help

• OpenCms Website
• Official Mailing List Archives
• Mailing List Archive at Nabble.com (Good search function and threaded display)
• Managing and Customizing OpenCMS 6 A book about OpenCms administration and usage

Demo

• german Demo of OpenCms 6.2

Forums

• OpenCms Forum
• German OpenCms forum
• another forum on OpenCms

Additional sites with OpenCms documentation:

• an older Wiki about OpenCms
• OpenCms documentation project at sourceforge
• German documentation for OpenCms Users
• Javadoc and browsable source code

Alkacon Opencms Documentation Modules

• v6.2.2

Third Party Integration and Modules

• Integration HOWTOs
• Available Modules and Extensions

What Can OpenCms Do

Highlights

• Introduction to the OpenCms application structure and tools
• Alternative site structures
• Planning and documenting your site
• common mistakes

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Category:What Can OpenCms Do

Trouble Shooting

• HTTP 404 with OpenCms URLs
• Log Settings

Writing JSP and developing in OpenCms

Jsp Basics

• Basic Steps to writing JSPs
• Including your template elements within your JSPs
• Using Direct Edit with JSP
• OpenCms features available via taglibs
• OpenCms features javadoc
• OpenCms downloadable sample modules
• How Opencms Handles jsp - Advanced

Development Process-Best Practices

• Transferring an existing website to a different server

Development Environment Setup

• Synchronizing with Ant
• Debugging

Development tips

• Eclipse integration
• Ftpd module
• Synchronization with external directories

Extending OpenCms

Module Development

• Development Lifecycle
• Action classes
• Advanced module config

Advanced Customization

• Custom Login Page
• Custom File and Folder Types
• Custom Views
• Custom Widgets

Admin Tools

• Adding Admin Tools

Advanced development topics

• core stuff
• event handling

Common HowTos

• RSS

The future development of OpenCms

• Wishlist
• Development Roadmap