问题
I have an application-centric ASP.NET MVC (on SQL/EF) website that, for approx. 5 years, has provided a few specialized job-board-like AJAX applications to about 25,000 members.
Most of the site's fairly rich existing application data-schema operates behind member-only logins (http://www.erp-consulting.com). That's partly because that's our bread-and-butter; but it also because our outreach teams that would create non-application content don't have a place to put that content (a CMS).
I dread publishing a website/URL topology based on a CMS, and getting "locked-in". So I want to make sure I don't miss any important factors.
What would be a typical way to integrate a CMS into this existing site? Is it relevant that I choose an ASP.NET MVC-based CMS for this?
- SEPARATE: Would I run the CMS as an IIS sub-site? If I do, and I use an MVC-based CMS, would I be able to share Layout pages and items like HeaderPartial.cshtml from the parent? How then would I get dynamic URLs to CMS content onto my existing home page?
- EMBED MY APP: Would I typically instead make the CMS my root, and embed application "widgets" I've developed into CMS-centric pages, getting rid of my own home page, etc? This sounds like it would be risky for getting our application's headers loaded into pages, among other issues.
- EMBED NEW CMS: Would I add an assembly reference in my existing MVC site, and call output renderers in my own MVC views?
- OTHER
Or are all of these practices followed?
As a side note, I'm currently considering at least the following packages, because they are MVC-centric:
- http://orchard.codeplex.com/
- http://www.kooboo.com/
- http://piranhacms.org/
If you have a different recommendation on a CMS, that's wonderful, but that's not the focus of my question... To keep this question in the bounds of S/O standards, in addition to your product recommendation, please describe how it answers my main question: How would I integrate it?
EDIT
A few hours later, it looks like the developers of specific MVC-centric CMS's have very different ideas of how to integrate sites. I'll start collecting some information here, and if there's no help offered by the time my 24-hour self-answer period is up, I'll try to present something.
- "refactor the MVC application into an Orchard module" - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11867113#11867869
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22694302/integrating-a-cms-into-an-established-application-centric-mvc-website