Something done in my down time: "Allrangecombat.co.uk"

Allrangecombat Website

I have been a long term student of martial arts and when ask by my senior instructor whether there anything I could do to assist with his website, of course I said yes.

The site is available at allrangecombat.co.uk and allrangecombat.com and has been hosted on a relatively cheep host iPage.
The whole site took about two days to put together and much of that was messing about unnecessarily with uploading content.
The site is based on a nice little CMS called MODX which is 100% PHP which is installable as a standard extra on iPage. While the CSS is based on MetroUI which attempts to emulate Windows Eight's look and feel. I have used it here to provide a CSS which adapts to mobile devices.

Naturally I have attached my own club site to this one as a mini-site: allrangecombat.co.uk/bath.
Enjoy!
Better still come training!

Configuring MODx to run under Tomcat

If you read my article on running PHP under tomcat and debugging it using eclipse you should be up to speed on getting PHP running under Tomcat. An earlier post detailed how to set up Drupal on Tomcat.
This is exactly the same deal!
SO these are the steps:

1. Set up a folder for your MODx site as a Tomcat Web project where your website folder is "htmldocs" (as it helps you when referring to MODx documentation).
2. If you have an install of a MODx site which is running under Apache this part is a doddle.
   Simply place ALL the site files into the htmldocs folder.
3. Start up Tomcat;
4. Browse to the site & hurah you see your site!
5. However if you have an index.html file in your root folder you may not see it if index.html comes before your index.php in your welcome file list.
   Either adjust your welcome list or delete the index.html file.
6. Now when you browse to your index.php page you will see your site.
   Assuming you have your db permissions set up for the web user.
   The php debugging here is a great way to find out where to look as ModX kindly tells you the file and line number where the db access is.
7. HOWEVER at this point you will find you can see index.php and any other php pages but ModX generates URLs with a .html extension which Tomcat just says do not exist.
   These are " Friendly URLs" in MODx talk.
   This is similar to problems that people running under Apache Httpd encounter.
   If you look for your page on the admin pages (See picture).
   
   Each page has a number Home=1, "About Us"=12, Solutions=2.
   Yo should be able to get to the pages in question by using the URL <site path>/index.php?id=<doc number>.
   As does using the URL alias seen when editing the resource which is the file refered to by the "Friendly URLs". Try the URL <site path>/index.php?q=<freindly html doc name> (ie. <site path>/index.php?q..
8. SO lets fix this so the  "Friendly URLs" work.
   We can turn them off but then they are not SEO, having this feature is arguably the most powerful way to have MODx change your urls. When you're using this method, your MODx pages will look and feel just like they were uploaded into a directory on a web server. This is good news for bookmarking and SEO.
   To do this you have to edit your .htaccess file.
   The first hitch will be editing it as eclipse just hides this resource (fix here).

LifeRay vs ModX

Comparing two widly different products based on there Web Content Management features:

	Liferay Portal	MODx
Recommended Web Content Management Systems (CMS)
Product Details
Product Name	Liferay ​Portal	MODx
Company / Developers	Liferay,​ ​Inc	MODx ​team
Latest Stable Release	Liferay ​Portal ​6.​0.​6	MODx ​1.​0.​2
Application Server	Apache J2EE	Apache        J2EE
Price	$​0	$​0
Operating System	Platform Independent	Platform Independent
License	GPL LGPL	GPL        LGPL
Programming Language	Java        PHP	Java PHP
Database	DB2 Microsoft SQL Server MySQL Other PosgreSQL	DB2        Microsoft SQL Server MySQL        Other        PosgreSQL
Overview	Liferay Portal Web Content Management System by Liferay, Inc is distributed through a LGPL license. It runs on a J2EE server with support for a DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Other, PosgreSQL database and is in the Java programming language.	MODx Web Content Management System by MODx team is distributed through a GPL license. It runs on a Apache server with support for a MySQL database and is in the PHP programming language.
Website
Website	Liferay Portal  (liferay.com)	MODx  (modxcms.com)
Features
Root Access
Shell Access
Authentication Type	Kerberos LDAP NTLM Pluggable	Kerberos LDAP        NTLM Pluggable
Page Caching
Database Replication
FTP Support	Limited
XHTML Compliant
UTF-8 Support
Database Reports	Costs ​Extra
Metadata
Friendly URLs	Yes	Yes
URL Rewriting	Yes	Yes
Other Features
Content Approval		Free ​Add ​On
Versioning		Free ​Add ​On
Commercial Support/Training		Limited
Drag-N-Drop Content		Limited
Subscriptions
Load Balancing
Web Statistics	Limited
Web Services Front-end	Yes	Yes
RSS
	More Details	More Details

From http://web-cms.findthebest.com/compare/5-42/MODx-vs-Liferay-Portal