Looking for a very basic solution for building/maintaining company intranet
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I am on the hunt for a VERY BASIC web-based application that I can use to build and maintain static web pages for my company's intranet.
We previously had a product that included help desk, time and attendance, and basic information and document presentation (among other things), which made up our intranet.Now we've gone with different vendors for the help desk and time and attendance parts and now all we are left with is to find something that can essentially allow specific users to create and manage static web pages, for the purpose of displaying announcements, news and links to local and exteral resources and documents.
This is something pretty basic that I could probably build myself in PHP and PostgreSQL or something but I honestly don't have the bandwidth for a project like that right now.I'm hoping someone can provide some suggestions for any products that might meet that description. Again, it doesn't need to be very complex at all and I know a lot of solutions have a lot of extra stuff jammed packed into them. I'm just looking for something really lightweight and simple to deploy and manage.
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For static internal pages, very little will compete with Wordpress.
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Commonly Wiki's are used for this as well. Depending on which you prefer - easy management or good looking pages.
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Following. I looked for a basic solution like this for a while and wasn't easy. I looked at Wordpress since I had some experience but ultimately settled on Sharepoint Foundation (free). We didn't need any bells and whistles. We have external links to particular websites or resources, internal links via UNC path to our file shares, and then there are easy web parts for announcements, calendars, etc. Pretty simple to setup and maintain.
With Sharepoint Foundation no longer being offered beyond 2013, I'll likely have to go a different route in the future.
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@zachary715 said in Looking for a very basic solution for building/maintaining company intranet:
Following. I looked for a basic solution like this for a while and wasn't easy. I looked at Wordpress since I had some experience but ultimately settled on Sharepoint Foundation (free). We didn't need any bells and whistles. We have external links to particular websites or resources, internal links via UNC path to our file shares, and then there are easy web parts for announcements, calendars, etc. Pretty simple to setup and maintain.
With Sharepoint Foundation no longer being offered beyond 2013, I'll likely have to go a different route in the future.
Yeah I know about the Sharepoint Foundation thing not being offered anymore so I forgot about it after I saw that..
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@scottalanmiller said in Looking for a very basic solution for building/maintaining company intranet:
For static internal pages, very little will compete with Wordpress.
Oh yeah I forgot about WP.. but all this stuff would need to be local and not online at all. ... I'm looking it up now and it looks like we can just download WordPress and use to generate local content.. awesome. This may do perfectly..
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@dave247 said in Looking for a very basic solution for building/maintaining company intranet:
@scottalanmiller said in Looking for a very basic solution for building/maintaining company intranet:
For static internal pages, very little will compete with Wordpress.
Oh yeah I forgot about WP.. but all this stuff would need to be local and not online at all. ... I'm looking it up now and it looks like we can just download WordPress and use to generate local content.. awesome. This may do perfectly..
ooh looks like I'm going to get to set up a Linux server with LAMP... fun
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@scottalanmiller said in Looking for a very basic solution for building/maintaining company intranet:
Commonly Wiki's are used for this as well. Depending on which you prefer - easy management or good looking pages.
If it's for the everyman in the company - good looking pages will trump almost anything else.
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@dave247 said in Looking for a very basic solution for building/maintaining company intranet:
@dave247 said in Looking for a very basic solution for building/maintaining company intranet:
@scottalanmiller said in Looking for a very basic solution for building/maintaining company intranet:
For static internal pages, very little will compete with Wordpress.
Oh yeah I forgot about WP.. but all this stuff would need to be local and not online at all. ... I'm looking it up now and it looks like we can just download WordPress and use to generate local content.. awesome. This may do perfectly..
ooh looks like I'm going to get to set up a Linux server with LAMP... fun
@scottalanmiller has you covered!
https://mangolassi.it/topic/13112/using-saltstack-to-install-high-performance-lamp-on-fedora-25
https://mangolassi.it/topic/13115/installing-wp-cli-the-wordpress-command-line-with-saltstack
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@dave247 said in Looking for a very basic solution for building/maintaining company intranet:
@scottalanmiller said in Looking for a very basic solution for building/maintaining company intranet:
For static internal pages, very little will compete with Wordpress.
Oh yeah I forgot about WP.. but all this stuff would need to be local and not online at all. ... I'm looking it up now and it looks like we can just download WordPress and use to generate local content.. awesome. This may do perfectly..
WP is a simple little free PHP app that you run on your own server. Plenty of guides for it here on ML.
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@dave247 said in Looking for a very basic solution for building/maintaining company intranet:
@dave247 said in Looking for a very basic solution for building/maintaining company intranet:
@scottalanmiller said in Looking for a very basic solution for building/maintaining company intranet:
For static internal pages, very little will compete with Wordpress.
Oh yeah I forgot about WP.. but all this stuff would need to be local and not online at all. ... I'm looking it up now and it looks like we can just download WordPress and use to generate local content.. awesome. This may do perfectly..
ooh looks like I'm going to get to set up a Linux server with LAMP... fun
That's the best way, yes.
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@tim_g said in Looking for a very basic solution for building/maintaining company intranet:
@dave247 said in Looking for a very basic solution for building/maintaining company intranet:
@dave247 said in Looking for a very basic solution for building/maintaining company intranet:
@scottalanmiller said in Looking for a very basic solution for building/maintaining company intranet:
For static internal pages, very little will compete with Wordpress.
Oh yeah I forgot about WP.. but all this stuff would need to be local and not online at all. ... I'm looking it up now and it looks like we can just download WordPress and use to generate local content.. awesome. This may do perfectly..
ooh looks like I'm going to get to set up a Linux server with LAMP... fun
@scottalanmiller has you covered!
https://mangolassi.it/topic/13112/using-saltstack-to-install-high-performance-lamp-on-fedora-25
https://mangolassi.it/topic/13115/installing-wp-cli-the-wordpress-command-line-with-saltstack
Awesome. I don't get to touch Linux too much at work, so this will be a fun project. Thanks!
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Fedora, everything you need is included.
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Someone post a link to my WP guides. There’s no reason to add the complexity of learning salt on top of setting this up when he already stated he does not have hardly the band with to do anything
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On a related note I probably need to make a new guide because it’s been a few years
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@jaredbusch said in Looking for a very basic solution for building/maintaining company intranet:
There’s no reason to add the complexity of learning salt on top of setting this up when he already stated he does not have hardly the band with to do anything
You can use the salt files as a guide to do it manually
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@jaredbusch said in Looking for a very basic solution for building/maintaining company intranet:
Someone post a link to my WP guides.
This one?
https://mangolassi.it/topic/12501/installing-wordpress-on-centos-7-minimal
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@tim_g said in Looking for a very basic solution for building/maintaining company intranet:
@jaredbusch said in Looking for a very basic solution for building/maintaining company intranet:
There’s no reason to add the complexity of learning salt on top of setting this up when he already stated he does not have hardly the band with to do anything
You can use the salt files as a guide to do it manually
I can yes. But somebody who doesn’t know what they’re looking at probably not
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@tim_g said in Looking for a very basic solution for building/maintaining company intranet:
@jaredbusch said in Looking for a very basic solution for building/maintaining company intranet:
Someone post a link to my WP guides.
This one?
https://mangolassi.it/topic/12501/installing-wordpress-on-centos-7-minimal
Yes thank you
Switch this to fedora the only thing that I think needs to change is the Yum commands need to become Dnf
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@jaredbusch said in Looking for a very basic solution for building/maintaining company intranet:
Someone post a link to my WP guides. There’s no reason to add the complexity of learning salt on top of setting this up when he already stated he does not have hardly the band with to do anything
No need to learn Salt, just use it. that's part of the beauty of it.
