[pm-h] blogging with blosxom

[Julian Brown]

Apache configuration is not easy, but once you get it set up it will run
forever without much interaction with you.

That being said:

- Have you ever done Apache configuration?
- The easiest thing to do is to add Bloxsum to one of your existing
websites on Apache
- We will have to do this interactively so do the following for me:

cd /etc/apache2/
hustle at HustleWebserver:/etc/apache2$ tree sites-available
sites-available
├── 000-default.conf
├── 001-learngigs.conf
├── 001-learngigs-le-ssl.conf
└── default-ssl.conf

0 directories, 4 files
hustle at HustleWebserver:/etc/apache2$ tree sites-enabled
sites-enabled
├── 000-default.conf -> ../sites-available/000-default.conf
├── 001-learngigs.conf -> ../sites-available/001-learngigs.conf
└── 001-learngigs-le-ssl.conf ->
/etc/apache2/sites-available/001-learngigs-le-ssl.conf

Once we identify which "website" to use, you will need to edit the conf
file.

Here is an example of how you will edit the file:

 11     <Directory /home/hustle/learn-cgi-bin>
 12         Options +ExecCGI
 13         AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
 14         Require all granted
 15         AllowOverride all
 16         Allow from all
 17     </Directory>

 40     ScriptAlias "/cgi-bin/" "/home/hustle/learn-cgi-bin/"


You would identify the directory where the bloxsum cgi script resides, then
copy the above to the config file and change "/home/hustle/learn-cgi-bin"
to the directory where bloxsum resides.  Add the ScriptAlias line as well,
changing my directory to your bloxsum directory.

reboot your system and bloxsum should work something like this:

http://yourwebsite.com/cgi-bin/bloxsum.cgi

To be sure ps aux | grep httpd to make sure Apache is running.  If it is
not look in the logs probably in /var/log/apache2 to figure it out,
probably you typed something wrong in the conf file and got a syntax
error.   Fix it, rinse lather repeat.

As far as configuring it for static sites, you will need to read the config
file that comes with bloxsum and see if you can parse that out.

Get the site up first than we can look at your bloxsum config file and try
and fix that.

Hope that does not overwhelm.

Julian












On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 2:19 AM <rlharris at oplink.net> wrote:

> I am running Debian Jessie.  I wish to use the blogging package Blosxom,
> which was written in Perl, about fifteen years ago. The last development
> work on Blosxom appears to have been done about ten years ago.
>
> The original CGI script and documentation are available on sourceforge,
> http://blosxom.sourceforge.net/documentation/users/; all configuration
> parameters are in the Perl script.
>
> Debian has a Blosxom package which allows use of a separate configuration
> file.  The Debian package places some files in locations other than the
> locations used in the original script.
>
> Blosxom can generate a web page dynamically in response to a web request;
> alternatively, Blosxom can generate a set of static web pages which can be
> uploaded to a remote web server.  Blosxom also generates an RSS feed.
>
> I am interested in Blosxom primarily because it can publish entries
> composed entirely in plain text (but HTML formatting can be added, as
> desired).
>
> I have two specific problems, which the documentation does not seem to
> address:
>
> (1) I do not know how to trigger Blosxom in static mode.
>
> (2) Apache2 is running on this machine, but I do not know how to enable
> Apache to find and serve the blog which is produced, either dynamic or
> static.
>
> I would be grateful for assistance.
>
> RLH
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