Sunday, 29 July 2007
Trying this blogging thing, using Blojsom
I'm wanted to try this blogging thing, so I looked around for some software and decided to try blojsom. I wanted something that would run under tomcat, so it came down to choosing between blojsom and roller. I found this post comparing the two. Basically blojsom is supposed to be simpler for a single user, whereas roller scales up to lots of users well. If I don't like blojsom, I'll give roller a try.
The install of blojsom went fairly smoothly, with one little hickup. When I got it installed and went to the url for the default blog or for the administration console, all the links and buttons pointed to localhost (including the CSS), even though I was coming in remotely. I had to dig a little to troubleshoot, but after grep'ing a little I discovered that the urls are stored in data in the Properties table (it's loaded by the blojsom-full-initial-data-mysql.sql script). After ssh'ing in to my server and using lynx a little (my server has no X server), I found you can change the URL's in the admin console. Lynx was tiring me out with the admin forms, so I just went in to the database and did some update magic, and then it worked.
Anyway, I know I could have tried one of the many service out there that host your blogs, but I wanted a little more intimate experience. Blojsom is written with spring and hibernate, which are both tools I know and like.
One interesting thing I noticed is that blojsom lets you tag your pages in the "technorati tags" box. Tagging appeals to me greatly and fits in with my interest in ontologies and hip cool web 2.0 stuff. I imagine I'll blog about similar stuff that I put on my del.icio.us page.
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