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I have experienced with both joomla and drupal, installation and running websites with these scripts. Before this i had tested to install joomla at hostmonster, and now i am testing drupal installation at hostmonster hosting.

Drupal CMS offering powerful framework, which includes lots of module that you can import in and enable its and will extent your website features. You can have hompage, member login feature, voting, contact page, blog, forum.. added to your existing drupal site. Absolutely no coding require!

You can login hostmonster cpanel > simple scripts > drupal > drupal version v6.6

Once you had installed Drupal, you can configure your website from drupal admin site, add in module and enable function, load in new drupal and website template design, and publish your website online.

Hostmonster hosting is an affordable php web hosting plan that is also supporting joomla, mambo, and drupal scripts. These three are the few famous CMS scripts that offering you complete framework to creating new website, and they are running in php environment with mysql database.

To make your joomla script installation much easier, hostmonster hosting is offering “simple scripts” installer in their cpanel control panel. You can login cpanel, go to simple scripts, at content management section choose the joomla script. Current joomla version is 1.5.8. There are other alternate version available as well.

“Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.“

Following is sample screenshot of website created with joomla CMS scripts.

Considering hostmonster hosting as your next moodle web hosting? Moodle is a popular open source course management system, that you can easily install at hostmonster hosting. Download the latest moodle scripts and setup the script at hostmonster hosting.

Moodle scripts requires following server environment:

• Moodle version 1.6 or later: the PHP4 (version 4.3.0 or later) or PHP5 (version 5.1.0 or later) are supported.
• Moodle 1.8 or later, MySQL (version 4.1.12 or later)
• php.ini configuration and .htaccess customization.

Moodle installation is not available throught hostmonster simplescripts or hostmonster fantastico, so you have to manually perform the moodle installation.

To begin the moodle installation at hostmonster, first upload the unzipped scripts to server. Next, create a new mysql database for this new website. Go to yourwebsite.com/install.php URL.. to begin the script installation. You are require to enter in necessary information next. Once you are done, the config.php will be created with all your data/setting previously entered. Moodle setup at hostmonster is now completed, simple as that.

I performed a demo test to install moodle open source at hostmonster hosting. The installation process is painless, quick, and very easy. Note that moodle is a popular scripts, and its design with user friendliness in mind as well.

Resource: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Installing_Moodle

Having a CMS website to setup, and not sure which hosting plan to choose? Most of the CMS scripts are designed to run in php hosting with mysql database. There are some other optional features that can give you more features, eg .htaccess, php.ini, etc.

Hostmonster hosting is a cpanel hosting that offering lots of specification which includes: unlimited storages space, unlimited domain hosting, mysql database, live chat support, .htaccess overwrite, php.ini configuration, error page redirection, fantastico, simplescript, etc. These are the features that will make your work easier.

Following are the hostmonster cms scripts supported. You can find these scripts from hostmonster cpanel fantastico page:

• Drupal
• Geeklog
• Joomla 1.5
• Joomla
• Mambo Open Source
• PHP-Nuke
• phpWCMS
• phpWebSite
• Post-Nuke
• Siteframe
• Xoops