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If you have access to a web server, create a simple, database-free blog in 5 minutes with FlatPress

Posted by Steven_Rosenber on · 4 comments
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If you're like me, you find out about a cool open-source software project that's totally in line with what you're already doing (in my case that would be blogging and messing around with the Internet) and you have to try it out right away. I did just that with FlatPress, with which I created the I, Debian blog. It helps if you have FTP access to a shared-hosting account or a full-fledged web server.

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Comments (4)

cr ·
Using the filesystem as a filesystem, rather than running an RDBS to be treated as one, makes a lot of sense to me, which is why I use UseMod wiki on the LAN machines here. (Watching MediaWiki slow to a crawl on a P133 running Slackware trying to deliver up a page was an instructive experience.) With the rising interest in using plug-style and other low-power Linux computers for server-level jobs on the homefront to save space and power, this is even timely.

Thanks for the pointer, Steven.

Steven_Rosenber Story submitter ·
It's not as easy to use as, say WordPress or Movable Type. It won't automatically drop in a web link or image tag. But there is an upload utility. Since I spend half my day typing in HTML, I don't mind so much. The simplicity of the whole FlatPress setup remains intriguing (to me anyway).
Steven_Rosenber Story submitter ·
I was wrong about the images. You can upload them via a utility in FlatPress and then place them in the blog via the menu.
cr ·
FYI The current uploader does not deal well with multiple dots in filenames. no-19mar07.tar.gz became no-19mar07tar.gz by the time it was stored in attachs/. Hand-revised to restore the missing dot, however, it was successfully linked to in a post and fetched from that link.

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