kishoredbn/Newscoop

Newscoop is the open content management system for professional journalists. Features for the modern newsroom include multiple author management, issue-and-section based publishing, geolocation and multilingual content management. The enterprise-standard journalist’s dashboard and a templating engine supporting anything from HTML5 to mobile complete this fast production and publishing system.

Newscoop is the open content management system for professional journalists.

Features for the modern newsroom include multiple author management, issue-and-section based publishing, geolocation and multilingual content management. The enterprise-standard journalist’s dashboard and a templating engine supporting anything from HTML5 to mobile complete this fast production and publishing system. Read more about Newscoop history on his wikipedia page.

Quick links to our resources are:

• Manuals for Newscoop http://manuals.sourcefabric.org
• Forums and mailing lists: http://forum.sourcefabric.org
• Bug Tracking: http://dev.sourcefabric.org/browse/CS
• Public source code hosting: https://github.com/sourcefabric/Newscoop
• Download link: https://github.com/sourcefabric/Newscoop/releases
• Developer's wiki: https://wiki.sourcefabric.org/display/CS/
• Developer's blog: https://dev-blog.sourcefabric.org

Installation

How do I install Newscoop? Check here

Using console command

php application/console newscoop:install --fix --database_name newscoop --database_user root --database_password password

Default Admin Panel account is admin with password password.

For more details run:

php application/console newscoop:install --help

Using docker

Make sure docker and docker compose are installed (boot2docker or docker machine on OSX as well). Add the line 127.0.0.1 newscoop.docker to your /etc/hosts file. OSX users should use the ip of their virtualbox (e.g. boot2docker ip).

For running Newscoop in production mode:

docker-compose build
docker-compose up

For running Newscoop in development mode:

docker-compose -f docker-compose-dev.yml build
docker-compose -f docker-compose-dev.yml up

Requirements

PHP version must be at least 5.4 on Debian and CentOS to run Newscoop properly. See PHP bug.

Compatibility

Browsers	Tablets	Smartphones
Safari 7.1+	not supported	not supported
Google Chrome 31+	not supported	not supported
Internet Explorer 9+	not supported	not supported
Firefox 35+	not supported	not supported
Opera 27+	not supported	not supported

REST API documentation

REST API documentation will be available under the link: http://www.domain.com/documentation/rest-api/ after Newscoop installation is done.

You can preview it on newscoop-demo instance: http://newscoop-demo.sourcefabric.org/documentation/rest-api/

How to contribute

Only 4 steps:

• Fork sourcefabric/Newscoop repository - how to fork.
• Clone your fork
• Create new local feature branch - how to create branch
• Create pull request with your feature/bugfix - how to create pull request

License

Newscoop is licensed under the GPL3 license.