Help please: What kind of software this Website use

[Laura27]

Hello all,

I need help, can't figur out what kind of software this website <snip> is using...

It seems to be a very basic php software and good for seo. People can leave a comments about my products and its generated also a new cool pages.

Anyone here who may help?

Thanks.

[edited by: not2easy at 7:41 pm (utc) on Feb 4, 2019]
[edit reason] Tos/Charter compliance [/edit]

[tangor]

Welcome Laura27 ... I suspect your link will be removed ... See the TOS.

[tangor]

Most times an examination of the source code will reveal what is in use.

[Laura27]

Please take note that I'm not a big expert, just have a nice small site with some of my self made products.
Maybe this is the problem why I can't find it out.

Any help is appriciated :)

[topr8]

message them and ask - you might find they tell you.

[Laura27]

@topr8 I sent them an EMail around 2 weeks ago, no answer :(

[robzilla]

Looks custom-built. So, proprietary software.

[not2easy]

How to find out what kind of software is being used on any site is done at least two ways: ask the site in question, or examine the source code to see for yourself.

Generally looking at the head area of a page gives you information about what platform or software is being used, or it may be a proprietary platform built for their purposes by a developer.

[Laura27]

@not2easy examine the source code show nothing... It seems to be not a proprietary platform, since all complaintboards using this kind of software.

[tangor]

In reality the "software" is HTML, CSS and Scripting (pick a language, any language)

CMS is all the above. A Framework is all the above. Responsive is all the above. There are, however, some "tools" and "libraries" of script functions which can be called by HTML and used with databases, etc. Is that "software"?

To me software is something like an application (word processing, spread sheets, database) which has internal coding the user cannot change. Web sites are not "software" in that aspect.

HTML, CSS, Scripts ... and learning how to employ those to create a functional website. Can it get complicated? You bet!

CMS, I suppose, come nearest to "software" ala websites and there are quite a few out there. Depends on your skill level on how they work for you. If you roll your own, you know how it works. If you use someone else's then there might be an unexpected surprise or two in there. :)

[Laura27]

@not2easy in the source code I can't see anything.

I still don't know what kind of CMS/PHP script it using...

[Selen]

You can try to do reverse-engineering. If the page has less than 100 HTTP requests, it is not Wordpress.

[phranque]

you might get a clue by examining the HTTP Response headers.

[Laura27]

@phranque I don't see anything!


View HTTP Request and Response Header
HTTP Status for: "example."

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx/1.15.8
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 21:59:00 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 169
Connection: close
Location: www.example/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.15.8
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 21:59:00 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Connection: close
X-Powered-By: PHP/7.2.14
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=05fjlkaurn9c0i8thqbb0hdiv2; path=/
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
Pragma: no-cache
Vary: Accept-Encoding

[edited by: phranque at 11:45 pm (utc) on Feb 4, 2019]
[edit reason] exemplification/removal of specifics [/edit]

[NickMNS]

I don't see anything!

Server side scripting appear to be PHP:

X-Powered-By: PHP/7.2.14
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=05fjlkaurn9c0i8thqbb0hdiv2; path=/

The server or at least the reverse proxy server is Nginx:

Server: nginx/1.15.8

What exactly is the point of this?

[Laura27]

That is what @phranque said I should do ...

But I don't think that I can find by examining the HTTP Response headers what I'm looking for.................

[tangor]

I looked at the site. Appears to be old school table layouts with possible database fills for content. Much like this forum. :)

Nothing new there. Just plain old HTML and CSS... with a bit of scripting. :)

[Laura27]

It is not the same as a forum, it generate every time when people send a complaint a new website for. Very cool...

[NickMNS]

What I meant was what is the point of knowing what CMS or scripting language is used.

You say:

It seems to be a very basic php software and good for seo.

The choice of scripting language has no impact on SEO. Its not like Google gives you extra ranking for using PHP over Python. What counts is how the content and page is displayed to the user and to the bots (should ideally be the same). The choice of CMS/Scripting/backend basically your entire tech stack should be determined by a variety of needs none of which are SEO.

[robzilla]

You can assume it's proprietary unless they respond and tell you that it's not.

One of many good things about custom-built software is that, because it's built for a specific task, it can often be "very basic", as you say. And when you get things tailored to your exact needs, that's often "good for seo", because you can tick all the boxes just the way you think is right.

[tangor]

It is not the same as a forum, it generate every time when people send a complaint a new website for. Very cool...

This forum generates brand new, even when you post a reply. :)
My comment was on the structure/code of the site and it is dirt simple dark ages HTML. IOW, I don't see a "software" at all.

HTML, CSS, MySQL, PHP and done.

[tangor]

Meant to add:

Nothing wrong with dark age coding! If it works, use it!

[phranque]

welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com], Laura27!

But I don't think that I can find by examining the HTTP Response headers what I'm looking for

not in this case, but sometimes...

hence my qualification here:

you might get a clue

[lucy24]

If the page has less than 100 HTTP requests, it is not Wordpress.

If it uses fewer than ten stylesheets, it is not WordPress.

Don’t the major CMS all plaster their html with indications of how it was built? If there is absolutely nothing in the html but, well, html, it was either hand-rolled or a very well-made custom CMS. Sometimes you can get clues from things like spacing or absence thereof: Does it say

<table class = "clevername">
 <tr>
    <td>blahblah</td>
  </tr>
</table>

or does it say

<table class="clevername"><tr><td>blahblah</td></tr></table>

? (And if there's a mix of both on the same page, there was more than one finger in the pie.)