Appleseed Portal is an open source Portal and Content Management System focused on providing a high-performance, easy-to-use framework. The software gives designers, developers, and modern entrepreneurs a singular system to build powerful applications and intranets that run the modern enterprise on the Microsoft.NET. This software can be docked using Docker and run on any platform: https://github.com/Appleseed/portal-stack ( Windows / Mac / Linux).

The Portal Stack is released Open Source to host Appleseed.Portal in a Docker Container. https://github.com/Appleseed/portal-stack

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• Windows 7 | 8 | 10 | 2016 Physical or Cloud
• SQL Server | Express 2005 | 2008 | 2012 | 2014
• Visual Studio 2015 (Visual Studio 14) for Development
• Current Microsoft Framework vesion: .NET 4.6.1 | (.NET Core 1.0 in Development)

• Release
  • Grab the latest release: https://github.com/Appleseed/portal/releases
• Database
  • Create an Empty SQL Server Database in a SQL Server Instance
    • Give a user access to your SQL Server Databse [Network Service is recommended]
    • Give this user db_owner in the user mapping section to your Database
• IIS Hosting
  • Unzip the archive to a non-windows controled folder such as C:\Appleseed\ [ie : Not the Windows folder or folders locked]
  • Create a Site in IIS with a .NET 4.0 Application Pool
    • Change the Identy on the Application Pool to Network Service [The site will run under this identity]
    • Point the IIS site folder to C:\Appleseed\ or where you unzipped your archive
    • Browse your Site which will cause a redirect to the Web Installer
• Web Installer
  • Follow the Instructions of the Web Installer
    • Give write access to the Identity [ie: NetworkService] of your Application Pool to the below Files and Directories
      • The Web Installer will do an environment check to ensure the proper permissions
    • Web.config -- Needs write if you want the web installer to set your web.config up for you [recommended]
      • This should be removed after install
    • \rb_logs -- Needs write to provide error / info logs
    • \Portals -- Needs write to allow writing site files
• Post Installation
  • On successful installation you should see a bootstrap theme and a login

http://www.appleseedapp.net

https://github.com/Appleseed

http://learn.appleseedapp.net

https://github.com/Appleseed/portal/issues