Blogthon
========
Stefan Ritter <xeno@thehappy.de>
:Date: 2012-01-21
Installation
------------
The installation of Blogthon assumes that your webserver supports CGI and Python
is installed. If all this is given, you can download Blogthon in a directory of
your choice. After that you have to symlink the following files/directories into
your webroot:
* blogthon.cgi
* .htaccess (Apache)
* error.css
* styles
Then create 3 directories and 1 empty file:
* entries/
* static/
* plugins/
* linklist
Your webserver needs write access to the entries directory:
[source,sh]
$ chmod 777 entries
Now copy the example configuration into your www directory, or to
../blogthonrc or ../.blogthonrc.
If all this is done, you can continue with setting up your httpd.
Apache
~~~~~~
To enable CGI you just have to run "a2enmod cgi" as root. In some cases you have
to allow .htaccess for Apache:
[source,sh]
<Directory "/path/to/your/webroot/">
AllowOverride all
</Directory>
To finish the installation, reload Apache with
"/etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload" as root.
Lighttpd
~~~~~~~~
First you have to enable cgi support for lighttpd by running "lighty-enable-mod
cgi" as root. Now create a new config in /etc/lighttpd/conf-available/ named
50-blogthon.conf or something similar with this content:
[source,sh]
$HTTP["host"] == "YourBlogURL" {
cgi.assign = ( ".cgi" => "/usr/bin/python" )
index-file.names = ( "blogthon.cgi" )
}
Enable this config by runnung "lighty-enable-mod blogthon" and restart lighttpd
with "/etc/init.d/lighttpd restart" as root.
Using Blogthon
--------------
To start blogging you just have to open your favorite editor, write your entry
and save it under entries/:
[source,sh]
vim entries/Title.txt
The suffix can be set in your configuration file. Default is ".txt".
While parsing an entry, blogthon places a <br /> behind each line, except for
lines with <ul>, <li>, <table>, etc... So you don't need to make your own
layout using <br /> tags. Aside from that you can certainly use <p> elements
and all other HTML tags.
Staticpages
~~~~~~~~~~~
Staticpages are placed under static/ without a suffix. To sort them, you can
start the filename with a literal and -. So "01-Foo" will be placed before
"02-Bar":
[source,sh]
vim static/02-Bar
If you want to make a staticpage to be a link to an extern page, you just have
to place the following content in the first line:
[source,sh]
extern_link: http://your/link
Comments
~~~~~~~~
Comments are saved under entries/ like all entries, but with the suffix
".comments". The syntax in this file is like this:
-.Nickname
+.Date
.some text
.more text
Linklist
~~~~~~~~
To add a link to your linklist, just add a line to the linklist file:
[source,sh]
http://some/link Name of your link
Of course you can use empty lines to split different sorts of links.
Tags
~~~~
The first line in entries can (not must!) contain tags. Here's an example:
+tag1 +tag2 +another tag
Unfortunately you have to create the index for all tags manually:
[source,sh]
$ ./blogthon.cgi -t
Additional header lines
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If you want to add some lines between the <head> tags, you can place them into
styles/$yourstyle/header.txt.
