http://reagle.org/joseph/blog/technology/python/setting-up-pyblosxom Joseph Reagle http://reagle.org/joseph/blog/technology/python/setting-up-pyblosxom Copyright 2003-2010 Joseph Reagle PyBlosxom http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/ 1.4.3 01/10/2008 2003-08-27T19:15:00Z http://reagle.org/joseph/blog/2003/08/27/setting-up-pyblosxom 2003-08-27T19:15:00Z 2003-08-27T19:15:00Z <p>These are some of the steps I took to setup <a href="http://roughingit.subtlehints.net/pyblosxom/">pyblosxom</a>, though not all python string values are of a complete (literal) path:</p> <ol> <li>my web directories are in $HOME/data/2web/reagle.org/joseph</li> <li>untar pyblosxom-0.8rc1.tar.gz as $HOME/data/2web/pyblosxom/</li> <li>cp pyblosxom.cgi ../../reagle.org/joseph/blog</li> <li>make "blog" an executable file: <pre>ForceType application/cgi-script; SetHandler cgi-script</pre> <p>Unfortunately, this is in the "reagle.org" the root directory and applies to <strong>any</strong> file named "blog"</p> </li> <li>Update "reagle.org/joseph/blog" to be able to find the files<br /> <pre>import sys sys.path.append("2web/pyblosxom/") sys.path.append("2web/pyblosxom/web") sys.path.append("2web/pyblosxom/Pyblosxom")</pre> <p>I prefer to use these syspaths instead of copying various files within the distribution which seems to be the convenient, but would make migrating the software to future versions even trickier.</p> </li> <li>Update "2web/pyblosxom/web/config.py" for this site including: <pre>py["datadir"] = "2web/reagle.org/joseph/content" py["comment_dir"] = "2web/reagle.org/joseph/comments" py["plugin_dirs"] = ["2web/pyblosxom/contrib/plugins", "2web/pyblosxom/contrib/entryparsers", "2web/pyblosxom/contrib/plugins/comments/plugins"] py["load_plugins"] = ["conditionalhttp","pyarchives", "pycategories","txtl", "breadcrumbs","comments"]</pre> </li> <li>secure "content" and "comments" from web browsing by placing deny directives in the .htaccess file in their directory</li> <li>enable the web server write permission to the "comments" directory</li> <li>find a copy of "textile.py", and place it at "2web/pyblosxom/contrib/entryparsers/"</li> <li>find a copy of breadcrumbs.py, stick it in "2web/pyblosxom/contrib/plugins/breadcrumbs.py"</li> <li>create html flavors</li> <li>tweak pycategories and others to make it generate valid XHTML</li> <li>add "trackback" to "reagle.org/joseph/", and add a system paths to it as for "blog"</li> <li>the URIs for trackback pings should look like "http://reagle.org/joseph/trackback/technology/python/setting-up-pyblosxom"</li> <li>add <a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=6022402">tweaks so that the flavours can sit in their own directory</a>; and add the HTML entry parser.</li> </ol> <p></p>