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/. If you
30 provide or edit a file suffixed .links to basename of an article file, these
31 links will be added as article-specific linkbacks to the .html file and the feed
34 Some metadata files will also be generated below ./metadata/: For each article,
35 there will be generated a .automatic_metadata (to contain an article's UUID,
36 checksum, and creation/modification dates) and a .intermediate file (to contain
37 pandoc-formatted article content like title and body); furthermore, files for
38 data used in ./feed.xml and ./index.html will, if non-existant, be built there
39 and can be edited to customize the blog – namely the files url, author, title,
40 index.tmpl, index_snippet.tmpl, article.tmpl, linkback.tmpl. A blog-specific
41 UUID and creation date is stored in ./metadata/automatic_metadata
43 recipe to remotely manage a redo blog with git
44 ----------------------------------------------
46 On your server, install the dependencies listed above. Then set up a repository
47 for your blog files. Let's assume we want it to sit in our home directory and be
52 git init --bare blog.git
53 cat << EOF > blog.git/hooks/post-update
56 export GIT_DIR=\$(pwd)
57 export GIT_WORK_TREE="\$blog_dir"
61 git add metadata/author metadata/url metadata/title metadata/*.tmpl metadata/automatic_metadata
62 count=\$(ls -1 metadata/*.automatic_metadata 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
63 if [ "\$count" != 0 ]; then
64 git add metadata/*.automatic_metadata
66 status=\$(git status -s)
67 n_updates=\$(printf "\$status" | grep -vE '^\?\?' | wc -l)
68 if [ "\$n_updates" -gt 0 ]; then
69 git commit -a -m 'Update metadata'
72 chmod a+x blog.git/hooks/post-update
74 Enable management of `~/blog` via redo-blog:
76 git clone https://github.com/plomlompom/redo-blog/
81 Link to the `public` subdirectory from wherever your web server expects your
82 public web content to sit:
84 ln -s ~/blog/public /var/www/html/blog
86 Client-side, do this (you obviously need to customize this code; at least
87 replace the username `user` and the server name `example.org`):
92 git remote add origin ssh://user@example.org:/home/user/blog.git
94 echo 'https://example.org/blog/' > metadata/url
96 git commit -m 'set up blog metadata'
97 git push origin master
99 If successful, the git hook will furthermore commit some ~/blog/metadata/ files
100 generated by redo, that can be pulled into the client-side local repository:
102 git pull origin master
104 bugs and peculiarities
105 ----------------------
107 Don't create a index.rst or index.md in the redo-managed directory, that will
110 The article title is derived in .md files from a first line prefixed with `%`,
111 while all other headings are treated as sub-headings. In .rst files, the title
112 is derived from a heading that must be at the top of the document, and be of an
113 adornment style (such as underlining with `=`) used only once in it.
115 Symbolic links in public/ to removed article pages are currently not removed.