Base
Hardened build
minimal ports, security patches applied at build time
SPIP
Azure
Applications
1 variation
SPIP is a free open source CMS for editorial and publishing websites: write articles in sections, run an editorial workflow, and publish multilingual content from a web admin.
Variations
This product is available in the build below. Open it for the operating system, cloud and version detail, or read its deployment guide.
| Product | Cloud | Operating system | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPIP on Ubuntu 24.04 | Azure | Ubuntu 24.04 | Standard | View · Guide |
Overview
SPIP (Systeme de Publication pour Internet) is a mature, widely used open source content management system built for editorial and publishing websites. Writers and editors work in a private admin area to create sections and articles, move them through an editorial workflow from draft to published, and manage multilingual content, while the public site serves the published pages to visitors through a flexible template system. It runs on a classic LAMP stack, storing content in a MySQL compatible database, and has a long track record powering news sites, institutional sites and community publications.
It suits publishers, associations, institutions and editorial teams that want a stable, self hosted CMS with a real editorial workflow and multilingual support: news and magazine sites, organisational and community websites, and content rich sites maintained by several editors.
Why the cloudimg image
Standing up SPIP normally means installing a web server, PHP and its extensions and a database engine, unpacking the release, running the install wizard by hand and then locking it away. cloudimg ships that whole stack assembled and proven, nginx with PHP 8.3 and MariaDB, with default editorial content already published so the site renders a real article the first time you browse to it rather than an empty page or a setup wizard. Security is designed in: no login ships in the image, and on first boot each instance regenerates its own crypto keys and mints its own administrator password and database password into a root only file, so no two deployments share a secret, and the install wizard cannot be reached by a visitor once set up. Your articles and uploaded documents sit on a dedicated data volume, the database listens only on the machine itself, the base is fully patched with unattended security updates enabled, and every image is paired with a step by step deploy guide and backed by 24/7 cloudimg support.
Common uses
- News, magazine and editorial websites
- Institutional and community sites with an editorial workflow
- Multilingual, content rich sites maintained by several editors
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