FAQs

#1 What's KISSCMS and who's the target audience?

KISSCMS is an open-source effort to create a web development environment that both novice and experienced developers can use. It's built with automated features to speed up the development time, architecture that enforces best practices and an open framework to allow creative work without restictions.

#2 How do I update my favicon/web app icons?

These are located in the "app/public" folder. You can update that OR place your own assetsat the web root (html/) - that will always take priority over the one in the public folder.

#3 How do I configure my web root

This is not required and should only be attempted by experienced users. Each server software has related configuration options, for example, if you're running Apache and have admin rights you can modify the DocumentRoot on each domain name by editing the httpd.conf file. If you don't have the necessary experience, don't have the required admin rights or simply don't want to go through this step just makes sure that all the files in the "html/" folder are copied in your current web root and modify the index.php file to update the location of the other folders (app,data) relatively to your web root.

#4 Can I delete the dummy data with one action?

Sure - all you have to do is delete the pages.sqlite file in your data folder and all content will be reset. Be sure to perform such an action only if you're certain you won't be missing anything.

#5 WHY do I need a BASE folder?

The BASE folder is not a necessity but it comes as a helpful aid when you want to update something in the APP folder while at the same time keeping the window open for future upgrades.

All you need to do is rename the APP definition to BASE and create an empty folder for the location of APP. From there on, you can copy all the assets you'd like to modify in the APP folder and they will always have priority over their counterparts in the BASE folder.