In my previous post (http://peterkellner.net/2010/07/10/installing-umbraco-to-win7-step-by-step/), I detailed the steps to use WebPI to install a fresh version of Umbraco on a Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit system. Now that I’ve done that, and played with it for a few hours, I’d like to start again with a fresh (no RunWay) set of data to play with.
I posted on the Umbraco forums and got some tips, but I thought I’d document the process here because I’m sure I’m going to be doing this again and thought it best to have some notes I can go back to (and that might help others newbie’s to Umbraco while I’m at it).
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I’m planning on launching some small consumer software products in the next couple months and to support this effort, I need to have a CMS, Forums Software, Store Front (Credit Card Processing) and Wiki solutions up and running. Since I’m a .Net guy, my first choice is to use Microsoft .Net technology, but if I don’t find anything there that suits me, off to the LAMP stack I go. It’s important to me that all of these are tied together with a single sign-on. It always irritates me when you go to a site and they make you first log in to the site, the create a separate login for forums. I will avoid that experience for my customers and users.
My Research
My research first started with Google/Bing type searches. That really leads me to many choices. Actually too many. Next, I go to my friend network. The first obvious person I turn to is Scott Cate because he seems to always have the best advice on this kind of thing. The guy is plugged into everything!
Scott give me a very strong recommendation to look at Umbraco. He says he is personally involved in writing code for that CMS, it’s very extensible, has a great admin UI and bottom line, is just good stuff. So, Off I go to http://umbraco.org.
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