I used zotonic a few years ago, it feels very "unerlangy" and I think thats a good thing, they have put together a fairly solid product and the site + documentation is top notch, it did feel someone stuck between being a cms for end users and a web framework for developers but that may have come from my preconceptions.

Its nice to see some mature + user friendly web components come out for erlang

oh and in case the zotonic guys are reading this.

I have a feature request :) what are the chances of packaging zotonic for agner (http://erlagner.org/), it would make it very attractive for erlang devs to try it out

I am reading this :) At the moment we don't have a package on our plans. We are reorganizing the complete installation and splitting up the module system. Maybe you can file a feature request? Then we can look into it for some future release.

I find it odd that it seems to be its own Webserver, that makes it hard to save a lot of time using standard Apache modules for common use cases which might not be addressed in their build.

You can always run it behind Apache. Or if you want to run several heterogeneous web apps, you can run Zotonic on different port and reroute to it from port 80.

Of course Apache will just slow it down :)

I believe it uses Mochiweb, a well-established Erlang HTTP server. I could be wrong though, as it's been awhile since I messed with Zotonic.

Indeed, Mochiweb under Webmachine. Webmachine is the excellent HTTP protocol library made by Basho.

Zoton is a brand name for Lansoprazole. Is this name meant to mean something?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoton

With a lot of projects these days, I get the feeling that the meaning behind the name is "this domain was available".

We have some other *tonic projects, which is the primary reason behind the name.