pre-Newbie Questions

[Daniel Springett]

>Can we use Manila to :
>
>Import users from csv file (name, e-mail, password, group(s), bulletins
>on/off etc)(Then we can switch of join to complement
>this)
yes if you have access to the frontier server
>Remove comment on page from home page. (and stories, news etc), but not
>discussion
Yes
>post 'future' news - ie future events that would show up as a link on future
>days on calendar, and only appear on news list on/after that date
>'expire' stories, news etc so it is not on view but not deleted - possibly
>to make a re-appearance. Perhaps put in an archive/temp holding area
>Limit the size of a site
yes
>
>Can Manila run from IIS and/or Apache, rather than its own webserver? if
>not, then from behind IIS and/or Apache? (I am presuming there is a howto
>somewhere on the details)
As i understand, yes, although no practice in this
>
>I am also interested in scalability/response performance - are there some
>stats somewhere to tell me about this with sample site sizes/number of
>users/number of accesses etc?
someone let me know too :)
>
>I have tried to find answers in previous postings without success - if I
>have missed anything,  I apologise - a link to the relevant question would
>be appreciated.
You will need both bayly.root and metadata.root from
<http://www.baylys.com:8080/help/> and  <http://zelotes.ent.iastate.edu/
metadata/>

cheers
daniel

>
>Many thanks in anticipation.
>Andy Hawkins
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