blohg

blohg is an easy to use and simple blog engine, that uses the Mercurial SCM as backend, to store the content of the post and pages.

blohg doesn't have a nice control panel nor WYSIWIG editors. All the content is written using any text editor and reStructuredText with some custom directives (undocumented yet, please read the docstrings for reference).

Starting your blog

Warning

The sys.prefix on the examples means the prefix value for your current environment (the current value of sys.prefix) and not the python variable itself, obviously.

 hg init my_blohg
 cd my_blohg
 cp -r ``sys.prefix``/share/blohg/config .
 $EDITOR config/remote.py

Change the configuration values as you want. The variables are pretty obvious and the sample file comes with some useful examples.

 mkdir -p txt/en-us/post
 cat txt/en-us/post/hello_world.rst
.. title: Hello World!
.. tags: hello_world,my_cool_tag

Hello, blohg!

EOF
 blohg run

Make sure that you run the blohg script from the root of your local repository.

If you're lucky, you should get your blog at http://localhost:5000/

 hg commit -A

Warning

Make sure you add the config/*.pyc files to your .hgignore file

Now copy your repository for the remote server as you want.

When your repository is available on the web server, configure your push path:

 cat .hg/hgrc
[paths]
default = http://your_user@example.com/my_blohg/
EOF
 hg push

Warning

This example DOESN'T cover the Mercurial server configuration!
Deploying your blog (using Apache/mod_wsgi)

 cp ``sys.prefix``/share/blohg/blohg.wsgi /some/place/
 $EDITOR /some/place/blohg.wsgi

Read the file and change what you need.

Edit your apache configuration and add something like this:

< VirtualHost *:80 >
 ServerName example.com
 WSGIScriptAlias / /some/place/blohg.wsgi
< /VirtualHost >

You'll need to add 2 hooks to your remote repository, to update your working directory and reload your Apache processes every time you commit some new page/post:

[hooks]
changegroup = hg update >&2
changegroup.apache = touch /some/place/blohg.wsgi

Add this to the .hg/hgrc file from your remote repository.

Important notes about writing posts/pages

Make sure that you always have a .. title: comment at the begin of your .rst file, this is your title!

Static pages will not handle tags, then you don't need the .. tags: comment. Tags are comma-separated.

Requirements:

• Python