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ccHost
is Creative Commons' open source (
GPL
licensed)
content management system
project that powers
ccMixter
and is the winner of the
Linux Journal LinuxWorldExpo Product Excellence Award
for
Best Open Source Solution.
Read more about ccHost
here
Contents
1.1
Current Stable Release
1.2
Source Repository
Documentation
Communication
3.1
People
3.2
Contacting
Zeitgeist
4.1
Goal
4.2
Short Description
4.3
Slightly Longer Description
4.4
Usage Examples
Appendix A: Compatibility
5.1
Browsers
5.2
Servers
5.2.1
Linux
5.2.2
Windows IIS Server
5.2.3
Windows Apache
5.2.3.1
XAMPP
5.2.4
Mac OS X
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Current Stable Release
Latest stable build of
ccHost 5.1
is available in ZIP archive format.
Source Repository
For much more developer info, see
Cchost/Developers
Documentation
ccHost 5 Documentation
Communication
People
Victor Stone
Jon Phillips
Contacting
The mailing list is the best way to get our attention. That and other methods are listed below:
Mailing List:
Archive
Chat: #cc on irc.freenode.net
Wiki: This page (
Bugs and feature requests
Zeitgeist
Goal
The goal of this project is to spread media content that is licensed under Creative Commons throughout the web in much the same way that weblogs spread CC licensed text.
Short Description
"Web-based System Supporting Remixing and Collaboration on Media"
Slightly Longer Description
ccHost
is an open source (
GPL
licensed) project that provides web-based infrastructure to support collaboration, sharing, and storage of multi-media using the Creative Commons licenses and metadata. It is the codebase used by
ccMixter
and
other sites
Besides its focus on sharing content, ccHost differentiates itself from other multi-media hosting programs by emphasizing the
reuse
(a.k.a. remixing) of content between artists
not only between artists on any given installation of ccHost, but between all installations across the web and any web site that implements the Creative Commons
Sample Pool API
, including non-ccHost sites such as the
freesound project
Usage Examples
ccMixter
- Primary usage of ccHost is the Creative Commons remix site, ccMixter.
fourstones.net
Victor's personal website
Remix Cecilia
at the Enciclopedia Cecilia project (Spanish).
iBeat
Moderated Sample Archive
Appendix A: Compatibility
Browsers
Recently tested on: Firefox 2/3 Mac/PC/Linux, IE 7 PC, Safari Mac (IE8 requires "compatibility" mode - see
here
for workaround)
Cookies must be enabled.
Most skins (the ones people will want to use) require Javascript enabled.
Servers
Primary development is done on Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy heron) using Apache, mySQL, and PHP. The actual dev setup is described in detail
here
Linux
ccHost on Apache (2.0.49 up to at least apache-2.0.55-r1) on Linux,
One should be able to easily install mySQL, PHP, and Apache (if they are not already available) through their distributions packaging system. See the dev setup above.
Windows IIS Server
ccHost has not been seen running or tested on Windows for a long time - several versions ago.
Windows users with their installation disks may install optionally the Windows IIS Web Server. This option has been tested. However, there might still be issues with it, and if so,
please file a bug
Even if you using Apache on Windows you may need to have IIS installed if you plan to use mail contact functions.
Windows Apache
There are many good tutorials for setting up a Windows/Apache/MySQL/PHP site (
Google search
) and all three subsystems now come with Windows installers making the job of installing relatively straightforward.
XAMPP
Windows installations without Apache, mySQL and PHP already installed should consider using
XAMPP
for Windows, which provides an easy install of Apache web server, MySQL database server, and PHP and perl programming languages. This is an easy way to get up and running, with the underlying technology necessary to use ccHost.
Follow the instructions for installation of XAMPP to know where to put the uncompressed ccHost package to properly work with your local setup.
Mac OS X
NOTE: This setup is similar to Linux.
Verified:
OS X 10.4.6
default OS X MySQL build, 4.0.26
GetID3 1.7.7
default Apache/PHP
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