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July 10, 2006
So it is a silly pun, but it is the truth. Blosxom is a simple but effective piece of Perl code that runs as a CGI script to implement blogs like the one you are reading now. All the documentation says that it is very easy to get Blosxom up and running in only a few minutes. This is true... up to a point. I did get a very simple blog working from the included files in a very short time. But my real goal was to integrate the new blog into the existing Native Suburbia framework and that was a little more tricky.
I spent many hours working with Blosxom plugins, flavour files, stylesheets, and Apache mod_rewrite directives in .htaccess. I experimented, researched, and often times asked for help. In the end, I have accomplished what I set out to do. There are a few cosmetic issues that I am still working on, but they are only seen in Internet Explorer. If you are using IE, give Safari or Firefox a try!
I couldn't have made this work without the generous help of people on the
Blosxom group in Yahoo, as well as a few bloggers that I asked for help just because they advertised Blosxom on their websites. Their patience for newbie questions is much appreciated.
Special thanks to:
- Kevin Scaldeferri
- Frank Hecker
- Dave Haxton
- Steve Glover
- Matthijs Kooijman
- Levi Wolfe
- Anthony DeLorenzo
- Pasi Savolainen
A big part of what I needed when setting up Blosxom was examples. Here are the files (zip'd archive) related to the Native Suburbia blog. I make no claims that they represent the best way to do this. They are only meant as examples.
Now I can get back outside and enjoy Native Suburbia!
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Dave H wrote at 2006-07-10 22:54: