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Homework 2 - COAP 3180 Fall 2 2007

COAP 3180 Course Page

Summary

Go on with the classroom activity, i.e.

• Configure a portal in a WAMP setting
• We strongly suggest to use the Joomla system

Homework tasks

1. Think about a web application done with a content management system
   • Examples: A portal for an association or an institution
2. Select an environment to work with, i.e. choose between:
   • WOS on a memory stick. Easiest to install. Runs from any directory, including a memory stick
   • A WAMP of your choice on your personal laptop. We suggest to download and install WampServer]. You get some extra functionality compared to WOS, but it will not run on a memory stick
   • Installation with a web hosting service. Best solution if you plan to profit from this course to start a web application that you actually might use.

Dates

• This homework is due at start of the week 3 Monday lesson
• The instructor will ask you to present purpose and current state
• A further homework will then require from you to add extra information / modules
• Each homework counts 10% in your global evaluation. The six best homeworks will be taken into account.

Evaluation

• Task completion (all required elements are present)
• Quality of the start page

Tip: Quality is essentially related to the idea that your applications are useful to a given range of users. Tips on how to do this are below.

Tips about the LAMP/WAMP environment

WOS

The instructor will provide you with 2 versions of a wos distribution.

Medium distribution

wos-dist.zip 

• includes several web applications
• May take up to an hour to unzip on a memory stick
• Takes about 200MB on a stick and 120 on a hard disk

Small distribution

wos-joomla.zip

• only includes the Joomla portal
• Unzips in about 5-10 minutes.
• Takes about

You also can "mix" your own if you wish to try. Go to: http://www.chsoftware.net/en/useware/wos/wos.htm?action=download

Make sur that you get:

• An Apache webserver
• A MySQL database server
• A PhP
• Joomla

IMPORTANT: Install a wos mix first on your harddisk. Installing it on a memory stick may create write errors. You then can copy to a memory stick (again this may take an hour or more, since memory sticks take a long time to copy a few thousands of little files).

Here is a recent screendump:

File:Wos-mixer

WOS Mixer - selection of WAMP configuration and the Joomla! Portalware

Links

Main links in this wiki

• WAMP
• web hosting service

Example Pageflake

• http://www.pageflakes.com/daniel.schneider/ (not really used)