Re: [stellation-res] Self-hosting update

["Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 15:30, Jonathan Gossage wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Stellation-res" <stellation-res@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 2:55 PM
> Subject: [stellation-res] Self-hosting update
> 
> 
> > Just to keep everyone well-informed...
> > 
> > I expected us to be self-hosting already by now, but things are taking
> > longer to set up than I anticipated. For perfectly reasonable reasons,
> > the Eclipse admins are *very* careful about what software they will
> > allow on a machine inside the Eclipse domain - after all, once a machine
> > inside the firewall gets compromised, the whole network is effectively
> > compromised! So getting things set up is just a more complicated process
> > than I expected. 
> > 
> > This also means that some of our plans for the website on the new
> > server need to be scaled back. We discussed using some kind of CMS
> > system, and those are, effectively, out of the question. On the other
> > hand, our MOO was approved, and will be up and running as soon as we
> > open the server to traffic from outside the firewall - and the MOO
> > provides forums, and some CMS-like functionality through something
> > called webslates. 
> 
> Will the MOO provide capabilities in anyway similar to a Wiki?

Roughly speaking, yes. A user logged in to the moo can create several
different kinds of objects representing documents, including webslates,
which are HTML documents that can be served by the HTTP server without
logging into the MOO.

	-Mark

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