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Thursday, December 09, 2004

Yes, we’re alive and working now!
That only took the better part of a week. arrrgh…

Well, for those of you who read this blog - and that would be the 3 of you - this has taken a while to get started. For a cms I chose Expression Engine (herewith dubbed ‘EE’), the fabulously-flexible content management system from the fine folks at pMachine. But with all that power lie a few problems, mostly in the security area.

EE uses some tools under Unix to perform it’s magic on moving and managing images and objects. In the interest of keeping my system secure I’m not going to discuss what those limits are, but let’s just say that when you install it, check the file upload section first. If you’ve got problems seeing directories or moving files and images, and you’ve done the perquisite file permissions, you’re probably running in the security policy of your ISP.

Then smile, ask nicely and send them tech people beer. You’re going to need them on your side…