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WebGUI

Open source content management system and web application framework written in Perl.

WebGUI is a content management system and web application framework written in Perl. Its install instructions ask for a recent Perl and MySQL, a configuration file for each site and an imported database schema, and they launch the application with plackup. Plain Black Corporation is named as the copyright holder, and the code is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2.

Worth knowing

The GitHub repository is archived, and its newest commit on the master branch is dated 2014. The homepage the repository names does not answer over https.

Identity

Status
Discontinued1
Maintainer
Plain Black Corporation2
Maintained by
Company

Rendering and deploy

Runs as
Always on3
Install with
git clone of the WebGUI8 branch, then configuration files and a MySQL schema import3

Releases

Current major version
84
Last release
2012-03-114

Adoption

GitHub stars
631
Contributors
295

Why these figures do not compare

Sources

  1. 2026-10-26: Status, links, Written in, Categories, GitHub stars
    api.github.com/repos/plainblack/webgui
  2. 2026-10-26: Maintainer, License, License model
    raw.githubusercontent.com/plainblack/webgui/master/docs/legal.txt
  3. 2026-10-26: Runtime, Minimum runtime, Databases, Install with, Runs as
    raw.githubusercontent.com/plainblack/webgui/master/docs/install.txt
  4. 2026-10-26: Last release, Current major version
    api.github.com/repos/plainblack/webgui/git/refs/tags/v8.0.0
  5. 2026-10-26: Contributors
    api.github.com/repos/plainblack/webgui/contributors?per_page=1

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