4 small blog system using the redo build system, with blog article files written
5 in (pandoc) Markdown or ReStructured Text.
12 - uuidgen (Debian package: uuid-runtime)
24 To set up a directory with symbolic links to the relevant files in ./processor/,
25 run ./add_dir.sh DIRECTORY.
27 You can then enter the directory and run redo there. This will generate article
28 .html files from all .md and .rst files, plus a ./index.html, and a ./feed.xml.
29 These files will be linked to symbolically in a directory ./public/.
31 Some metadata files will also be generated below ./metadata/: For each article,
32 there will be generated a .automatic_metadata (to contain an article's UUID,
33 checksum, and creation/modification dates) and a .intermediate file (to contain
34 pandoc-formatted article content like title and body); furthermore, files for
35 data used in ./feed.xml and ./index.html will, if non-existant, be built there
36 and can be edited to customize the blog – namely the files url, author, title,
37 index.tmpl, index_snippet.tmpl, article.tmpl. A blog-specific UUID and creation
38 date is stored in ./metadata/automatic_metadata
40 recipe to remotely manage a redo blog with git
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43 On your server, install the dependencies listed above. Then set up a repository
44 for your blog files. Let's assume we want it to sit in our home directory and be
49 git init --bare blog.git
50 cat << EOF > blog.git/hooks/post-update
53 GIT_WORK_TREE=\$BLOGDIR git checkout -f
57 chmod a+x blog.git/hooks/post-update
59 Enable management of `~/blog` via redo-blog:
61 git clone https://github.com/plomlompom/redo-blog/
66 Link to the `public` subdirectory from wherever your web server expects your
67 public web content to sit:
69 ln -s ~/blog/public /var/www/html/blog
71 Client-side, do this (you obviously need to customize this code; at least
72 replace the username `user` and the server name `example.org`):
77 git remote add origin ssh://user@example.org:/home/user/blog.git
79 echo 'https://example.org/blog/' > metadata/url
81 git commit -m 'set up blog metadata'
82 git push origin master
84 bugs and peculiarities
85 ----------------------
87 Don't create a index.rst or index.md in the redo-managed directory, that will
90 The article title is derived in .md files from a first line prefixed with `%`,
91 while all other headings are treated as sub-headings. In .rst files, the title
92 is derived from a heading that must be at the top of the document, and be of an
93 adornment style (such as underlining with `=`) that must be used only once in