MASA At The Rescue To The Mura CMS Users

For Coldfusion developers, there are few “Content Management System” options available. Mura is the name of CMS popular in CFML Community. Eventually, MURA became proprietary software. So, the people who are using Mura as an opensource no longer get updates. That leads to several issues.

WHAT IS MASA?

MASA content management system was written in ColdFusion programming language. MASA CMS Enterprise Content Management platform comes to the rescue. MASA CMS enables you to efficiently deliver personalized internet, intranet sites, and mobile applications. It supports seamless deployment on your preferred infrastructure, whether it’s AWS, GCP, Azure, or your own hardware.

MASA FEATURES

MASA is one of the most easiest and powerful Content Management and Digital Experience Platforms

• HEADLESS
• WYSIWYG EDITOR & DRAG ‘N DROP
• CUSTOMIZABLE TO SUPPORT BUSINESS SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS
• APPROVAL CHAINS & CHANGE SETS
• API’S, ENVIRONMENTS AND CLOUD VS. ONPREMISES

How to Install MASA

Prerequisite

• Docker
• Commandbox CLI

Install

Install Masa using Commandbox
CommandBox> install MasaCMS

Start
Start a Docker setup that launches a CFML application container and a database container.

Unix

> cd core/docker/local-mysql/
> docker compose up

Windows

> dir core\docker\local-mysql\

> docker compose up

Visit Your Newly Created CMS

• Go to http://localhost:8080 to view your local Masa CMS site.
• Goto http:/localhost:8080/admin to visit the Masa CMS Administrator. You can log in with the following credentials:
  • Username: admin
  • Password: admin

How to Upgrade from Mura to MASA.

The roots of MASA CMS lie in the last version of Mura™ CMS which was available as an open source. The last open source that Mura has released is Mura CMS 7.1.
Masa CMS is backwards compatible with Mura CMS. Migration is as easy as executing an upgrade.

Steps to execute
To migrate from Mura CMS to Masa CMS, follow the following steps:

• locate the config/settings.ini.cfm file in your project
• Find for the autoupdateurl setting in this file
• update its value to https://github.com/MasaCMS/MasaCMS/archive/main.zip
• login to the Mura administrator
• reload application
• execute an “update core”
• Hooray!!! You are on Masa CMS now!

Those who are stuck with the upgrade of MURA or Coldfusion/Lucee technology or any other belongings. Masa at the rescue.