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+Blogthon
+========
+Stefan Ritter <xeno@thehappy.de>
+:Date: 2011-07-13
+
+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
+* styles
+* .htaccess (Apache)
+* error.css
+
+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.