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Hi, I have recently taken on a job to create a simple website for a new business, the site will
have the usual contact, about us and four product pages.
The customer has to be able to update the site themselves so needs to be a CMS
I was initially going to use a bespoke cms I've developed and also considered using Joomla and
all was going well, that was untill the client asked about hosting so I offered my standard £5 per month package and they came back and said that they have another site hosted through Google apps free hosting and want to use it for the new site which untill that moment, I'd only used google apps for calendars, gmail and such.
So I've had a Google search for this and the answers involve words like "tricking Google" and other undesiable things. Also the upload of the site is apparently completely different than the usual ftp and alarm bells are ringing now.
1. Can I use something like Joomla on Google apps hosting (would need to be able to set up databases and other things)
2. Does it actually allow scripting languages to be used, ideally php although can be flexible with any .net approach also.
It just sound to me like it will only allow static html and I'm going to be restricted with things like chron jobs, password protected directories, actually, would it even allow me to add a htaccess or web.config file?
Any help with this would be massively appreciated.
have the usual contact, about us and four product pages.
The customer has to be able to update the site themselves so needs to be a CMS
I was initially going to use a bespoke cms I've developed and also considered using Joomla and
all was going well, that was untill the client asked about hosting so I offered my standard £5 per month package and they came back and said that they have another site hosted through Google apps free hosting and want to use it for the new site which untill that moment, I'd only used google apps for calendars, gmail and such.
So I've had a Google search for this and the answers involve words like "tricking Google" and other undesiable things. Also the upload of the site is apparently completely different than the usual ftp and alarm bells are ringing now.
1. Can I use something like Joomla on Google apps hosting (would need to be able to set up databases and other things)
2. Does it actually allow scripting languages to be used, ideally php although can be flexible with any .net approach also.
It just sound to me like it will only allow static html and I'm going to be restricted with things like chron jobs, password protected directories, actually, would it even allow me to add a htaccess or web.config file?
Any help with this would be massively appreciated.
