Content Management System Made Easy

Frequently asked questions

Here are some frequently asked questions from web designers and web site managers along with their associated answers. If you cannot find the answer to your specific question, please email us at support@whitedragonsden.com and we will get back to you as fast as we can.

1. Can I install White Dragon CMS into an existing web site?

Yes. If your web site is installed on a Windows server, then you need to make sure that PHP has been installed on the server and that the file extensions have been changed to .PHP.

2. Is it correct that White Dragon CMS just handles the content of the pages, and the appearance is governed by the site design. So then all I need to do is design a web site in the usual way, and then add White Dragon CMS to handle the management of the page content?

Yes, that's exactly right. The designer can design knowing that the site is going to look as he/she intended, without having to compromise on the design or have to understand any program coding whatsoever.

3. Does White Dragon CMS provide any facility for setting up menus, or is that handled by the site designer outside White Dragon CMS?

The menus can be handled in the design, or you can set up a 'menu' block in the same way as the 'news' or 'events' blocks on the demonstration site, and create the menu and place the block on all pages where it's needed.

4. How does the password protection work? Is it possible to set up a number of pages, each with its own 'owner' who has their own password?

Yes. The page access is controlled by the Admin. It's the one case where it is unavoidable that an admin has to do some work :)

5. Does White Dragon CMS just provide basic pages, or does it provide a structure for FAQs or other types of pages - what types of pages does it provide for in addition to the basic ones?

This is totally under the control of the designer. You can create as many template pages as you like, and the user can create as many pages as he/she likes from these template pages. White Dragon CMS is only concerned with content. The structure is down to the designer and the user.

6. Can I install White Dragon CMS into .ASP files?

Not at this time. The ONLY pre-requisite to installing White Dragon CMS is that the server has PHP installed and can run .PHP scripts. It is not possible to run PHP and ASP scripts in the same file on the average server.

7. What does the error "Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent" mean?

Please make sure that there is no white space above the line:
"<?php include('whitedragon/cms'); ?>"

Also, if you have edited your configuration file (conf.php), please make sure you have not left any leading or trailing spaces outside of the <?php and ?> tags.

8. What does the error "Warning: main(../whitedragon/cms.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in..." mean?

The system cannot find the White Dragon CMS program file. This is because the path you have given in the "include" text is incorrect. You have possibly have spelt it incorrectly or inadvertently added a space in the line, or you may be addressing the file incorrectly.