School Intranet

[chippo]

I just added pages to our website & made it the hompage using gpo. One for pupils & one for staff. Works fine, only for links though.

 

I've now got Joomla hosted by Link2ICT & intend to expand the intranet using this.

 

I would go for the Joomla way, it's a very flexible system.

[Friez]

If you're like me and despise IIS with a passion, Install Apache instead of IIS on a machine you'dd like to nominate as 'web server' for the Intranet.

 

Roll with the Win32 without Crypto, unless you plan to get certificates and all that gumph.

 

Then, if you want some dynamic page stuff going, I would go with PHP as a server-side scripting language.

 

If you intend to hook into a database for storing various things, MySQL is a good option, and if you want a PHP interface to administer it through, you can use PHPMyAdmin.

 

There's usually quite a good amount of documentation for all this setup although you may need to delve into ini files to tweak settings to your hearts content.

 

Do all this on a linux box and you have yourself a LAMP installation, but windows works just as well (sorta -- XP has a connection limit, so use something that's meant as a server OS).

 

Edit: Crap, didn't spot page 2, but my info still counts! >_<