[Rule] Website recovery report

[C David Rigby]

Hello Marco, et. al.,

I do feel a bit responsible for the SPIP difficulties as I was involved in
recommending it a while back when we discussed the move to a CMS for the
website. I've learned a bit since then, and I am in agreement with you about
SPIP's shortcomings. I found it awkward to use when I was working on
creating the installation report template.

I've used drupal a bit before and liked it. I have no objection to whatever
you wish to use. I am also glad to help at this stage. I'm more-or-less
settled in the new residence in Singapore, finally. I've yet to find a job,
so I can devote some time to helping with the conversion to a new site
package.

Questions:

Do you want to broadly consider other CMS packages, or are you happy with
Drupal?

Do you want me to take a closer look at errors with SPIP? If so:
     will I need shell access to the server?
     can you post the error messages here?
     have you posted the error messages to a SPIP list?

Would you like for me to look into converting the XML output of SPIP into a
Drupal format?

Happy to help with anything else at this point.

Regards,
C D Rigby
On 9/30/06, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at mclink.it> wrote:
>
> Hello everybody.
>
> Last week I was finally able to get an updated ssh password from
> Athens and log into the server. Then I tried to reinstall the same
> SPIP version we used before and got an error nobody can explain:
>
> http://listes.rezo.net/archives/spip-en/2006-09/msg00019.html
>
> Then I tried to install the latest version of SPIP, hoping it wouldn't
> cause problems, only to find a different version of the same bug:
>
> http://listes.rezo.net/archives/spip-en/2006-09/msg00021.html
>
> At this point, I have no idea if the problem is inside SPIP or in some
> apache configuration problem. Any comment or help is really, really
> welcome.
>
> In all honesty, I'm starting to be pretty pissed off with SPIP. Once
> it works, it's great and actually perfect for our needs, but every
> upgrade we did created some problems never heard of before on the SPIP
> users lists, (both on this AND on the previous server).
>
> Recently, for other projects I've had to learn some Drupal. If I could
> figure out how to migrate all the SPIP XML dump to Drupal
> automatically I would have probably already migrated.
>
> Really sorry this is taking so long. Thanks for your patience,
>
>
>         Marco
>
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