Setting-up RazorCMS / Part I (FTP Mode Install)
RazorCMS is a small but highly efficient CMS, using just a meager 600 KB Webspace but doing everything what you need for a CMS. Its expandale by Plugins (Called Blades), very speedy and does not need a database.
600 KB is the space needed for a basic installation of RazorCMS.
Start the installation
Just call domain + install.php
2 Options for “ownership” of files
Your are entering the Wellcome-Screen. It is a very unique option for RazorCMS that now you have 2 options:
“FTP mode” and “FileWrite” mode. Especially for those using a shared webhosting this is really an advantage.
Advantages of the FTP Mode
Why? As a normal user you just get a FTP account, and all files beloging on your shared part of the disk are “owned” by you and noone else. This is to ensure that noone else can change your files.
BUT! This is also different from the systems Agent handling the request coming in, in most cases Apache.
So if you ask the server to create a new file, it will use the user which is “owning” Apache - and you will often not be able to write to the files in your own webspace. Details are depending on the setup of your hoster, but it is one of the typical problems of shared hosting that you can´t change/delete files in your website.
Here RazorCSM offers a very elegant solution by ensuring that files are created using your account ownership.
So it is the recommended option to choose the “FTP MODE”
In just one screen you have to enter your future account data and the data of your FTP account (some as the ones you need for uploading)
In my next Post I will have a look on FileWrite Mode