And this is Setting up Pyblosxom, written Feb 01, 2005, and concerning Howtos

I’ve just mailed Sarabian a bit of advice on how I set up Pyblosxom websites. Note that this is probably pretty specific to me, but I present the advice below anyway in case it’s useful to someone else:

I tend to set it up like this:


/var/www/example.org
                    /html
                         /pyblosxom
                                   /pyblosxom.cgi
                                   /config.py
                                   /.htaccess [1]
                    /pyblosxom
                              /Pyblosxom [2]
                    /plugins [3]
                    /sites
                          /blogging-hacks

[1] content is:


<Files config.py>
deny from all
</Files>

[2] This is the Pyblosxom distribution
[3] Put all your plugins in here

Then set, in config.py, py[‘datadir‘]=‘/var/www/example.org/sites‘, py[‘plugins_dir‘]=‘/var/www/example.org/plugins‘, and set the base (the thing which tells it where Pyblosxom itself is, I can’t remember) to /var/www/example.org/pyblosxom. Then set up an Apache rewrite rule, something like

RewriteRule /weblogs(.*) /pyblosxom/pyblosxom.cgi$1

and then it should all work.

Comments

David Goodwin

I’ve just started using pyblosxom after using blosxom for perhaps a year.

It’s working well so far, apart from a bug with the calendar.

Dare I ask what you’re plugins are?

sil

David: most of my plugins are custom written things to make kryogenix.org work like I want it to, rather than things that are useful to other people. I use quite a few plugins taken from the plugin repository, though.