M4tt_Envoy
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Registered: 26th Feb 06
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Can anyone reccommend a decent free CMS which does the following
Knowledge Base
Forum
Permissions groups (i.e one client can see something which another can't)
I have looked at DNN but the free FAQ module isnt the best
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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Have a look at Drupal. It's pretty complex but should allow you to do what you want with different the installation profiles and add-ons available.
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ed
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Or in fact, Joomla might be worth a try too.
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Whittie
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Wordpress is proba easiest.
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willay
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Knowledge base - Wikipedia with access permissions.
Forum - vbboard or some shit
Permissions could be done a number of ways, vhosts in Apache so each client has their own different URL and you could also restrict access to said url using access lists.
Need more info on how the client would access it, i.e. is it going to be on The Internet or will it be sitting on the customers network? or something else?
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ed
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Drupal will do a Wiki, use a forum plugin and access rights all under one roof. Joomla will allow you to integrate a Wiki, there are forum modules and will do access rights all under one roof. I don't think Wordpress is specialised enough for this kind of thing.
Wouldn't it be best to avoid trying to stich together multiple systems/pieces of software?
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willay
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Depends if there is another product that can do it all really. In the past I've had no problems with using a handful of software. 
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Sam
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There is a WP add-on that you basically embed a forum on a page kinda thing.
I'd personally use MediaWiki and a forum, and just programmatically link the two together (I've done this in the past and it's not as hard as it sounds).
I tend to steer away from things like Drupal and Joomla as they aren't easy to administer.
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