Saturday, 16 July 2016

Umbarco the complete CMS


Umbraco CMS 


Introduction:

Umbraco is a fully-featured open source content management system with the flexibility to run anything from small campaign or brochure sites right through to complex applications for Fortune 500's and some of the largest media sites in the world.


Umbraco is easy to learn and use, making it perfect for web designers, developers and content creators alike.


How to install or download Umbraco cms 


There are multiple ways to download Umbraco-cms :

1. Install through a NuGet package. Open visual studio goes to tools and open NuGet package and type Umbraco and install it will automatically install all dependencies and make sure to update your web.config file if you install Umbraco in the existing project. 

2. Download Umbraco project through https://our.umbraco.org/  here is a link where you can download the latest version of Umbraco  download link

3. If you want a complete control over Umbraco-cms, So you can download a complete source code of Umbraco from here download link

but it is the little bit tricky to install complete solution of Umbraco so here are the steps to install it completely and working Umbraco solution

Step 1: Download complete solution of Umbraco and unzip it.

Step 2: Install Git into your system if it is not present here is a link. Git is available for different types of an operating system so choose as per your requirement.

Step 3: Open the command prompt in administrator mode and go to your project solution directory and run build.bat file which is present in the build folder.

when you run this from the command prompt so you will see so many packages will install in your project and rest of the missing file will come from server below are the screenshot for your reference



 After completing this your project is ready to work

So open your solution in visual studio and simply press F5 to start when you run this so Umbraco will run in  IIS express and it will open your website in the default browser.

When your website is started so you can get installation page on a screen it will take Name, Email Address, and Password.


The default database of Umbraco-cms is SQL Server Compact, If you want to change database so after filling all details click in customize so new pop up will open just like below image.




In this pop up there are so many options of database are present like Microsoft SQL Server Compact, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Azure, MySQL and Custom connection string choose as per your requirement and click on install

It will open another pop up where you can choose your theme after that your website is ready to work.

If you want to open an admin panel of Umbraco website so simply go to http://localhost/umbraco it will redirect to admin panel

Admin panel contains lots of thing like you can install the theme as per your requirement and install packages or upgrade packages here is a link where you can start learning Umbraco-cms.

Learn more about Umbraco and their packages so please visit https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/


KEEP CALM and READ ON!!!

Ankur Omar

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