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YAB-CMS-FF

Yet another boring CMS for FREE is a free, open source, bootstrap content management system for PHP 8 based on CakePHP 5, CakePHP vendor plugins, the AdminLTE bootstrap admin dashboard template and released under the MIT License.

It is powered by the CakePHP 5 PHP framework.

Requirements

  • Apache with mod_rewrite, intl, imagick OR nginx server
  • PHP 8.1 or higher
  • Latest MySQL or MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite or SQL-Server database engines

Installation

Installation using GitHub Clone

The preferred way to install YAB-CMS-FF is by using HTTP

https://github.com/MarksSoftwareGmbH/YAB-CMS-FF.git

or by using GitHub CLI

gh repo clone MarksSoftwareGmbH/YAB-CMS-FF

When the cloning is finished please enter the cloned project and run

composer update

When the composer update is finished

  • Upload the project content into a server htdocs TLD folder.
  • Create a new MySQL or MariaDB database (with the utf8mb4_unicode_ci collation).
  • Create a new user, set the password and grant the rights for the created database.
  • Update the file /config/app_local.php Datasources array with the database, username and password for the default, test_mysql, development and production configurations.
  • Update the file /config/app_local.php EmailTransport array with a default email server configuration (SMTP or Mail transport).
  • Visit http://your-site.com/ from your browser.
  • Visit http://your-site.com/login to login as Admin, the default username: Admin and password: superadmin (Please change this credentials to your needs).
  • Visit http://your-site.com/admin/dashboard to manage the backend as Admin.

Installation using the ZIP Archive

  • Download and extract the ZIP-file.
  • Run composer update
  • Upload the unzipped archive content into a server htdocs TLD folder.
  • Create a new MySQL or MariaDB database (with the utf8mb4_unicode_ci collation).
  • Create a new user, set the password and grant the rights for the created database.
  • Update the file /config/app_local.php Datasources array with the database, username and password for the default, test_mysql, development and production configurations.
  • Update the file /config/app_local.php EmailTransport array with a default email server configuration (SMTP or Mail transport).
  • Visit http://your-site.com/ from your browser.
  • Visit http://your-site.com/login to login as Admin, the default username: Admin and password: superadmin (Please change this credentials to your needs).
  • Visit http://your-site.com/admin/dashboard to manage the backend as Admin.

Vendor plugins

Suggested vendor plugins you should install via composer

Front- and Backend template

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