FlyZhy's Blog

My NanoBlogger HOWTO!

About NanoBlogger

You know that NanoBlogger is a small weblog engine written in Bash for the command line. It uses common UNIX tools such as cat, grep, and sed to create static HTML content. Also it is highly configurable and script-able. You can read the NanoBlogger User Manual to learn more about it. But here I will show you my configuration of My Blog.

1. Download

   $mkdir ~/nanoblogger
   $cd ~/nanoblogger
   $wget http://www.flyzhy.org/web/backup/softL/blog/nanoblogger-3.3-rc4.tar.gz
   $wget http://www.flyzhy.org/web/backup/softL/blog/jsfortune.tar.gz
   

2. Installation

   $mkdir ~/bin
   $tar xvfz nanoblogger-3.3-rc4.tar.gz -C ~/bin
   $echo $PATH
   /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/opt/bin:/usr/share/texmf/bin:/usr/lib/jre1.5.0_04/bin:/usr/local/share/openoffice.org2.0/program:/home/flyzhy/bin/monsterz-0.6.1:/home/flyzhy/bin/nanoblogger-3.3-rc4
   [/home/flyzhy = $HOME]
   

3. Creation

   $cd ~/nanoblogger/
   $nb --blogdir blog --add
   $cd blog
   $cp -r ~/bin/nanoblogger-3.3-rc4/moods/ .
   $tar xvfz ~/nanoblogger/jsfortune.tar.gz -C .
   

4. Configuration

   $vim blog.conf
   $cat blog.conf|grep -v '^#'|sed '/^$/d'
   EDITOR="vim"
   BROWSER="firefox"
   MAX_ENTRIES="10"
   DATE_FORMAT="%a, %Y-%m-%d %T %z"
   DATE_LOCALE="$LANG"
   DATE_ARGS=""
   BLOG_URL="http://www.flyzhy.org/blog"
   BLOG_CSS="styles/nb_flyzhy.css"
   BLOG_ICON="images/lover.ico"
   BLOG_URL_ACTION=""
   BLOG_CHARSET="utf-8"
   BLOG_MIMETYPE="application/xhtml+xml"
   BLOG_TZD=""
   BLOG_TITLE="FlyZhy's Blog"
   BLOG_DESCRIPTION="... come on, what are you looking for?"
   BLOG_AUTHOR="Haiyong Zheng"
   BLOG_CONTACT='<a href="mailto:flyzhy.org@gmail.com"><img src="http://www.flyzhy.org/style/FlyZhy_Gmail_logo.png" alt="Email FlyZhy" /></a>'
   NB_INDEX="index.html"
   PERMALINKS="1"
   CATEGORY_LINKS="1"
   BLOG_PREVIEW_CMD="$BROWSER $BLOG_DIR/index.html"
   BLOG_PUBLISH_CMD="lftp -f .ftprc"
   MAX_PAGE_ENTRIES="50"
   ENTRY_ARCHIVES="0"
   ABSOLUTE_LINKS="1"
   CATARCH_DATATYPE="NOBODY"
   PLUGINS_DIR="$NB_BASE_DIR/plugins"
   BLOG_FEED_LANG="en-us"
   ENTRY_FORMAT="raw"
   ARTICLE_FORMAT="raw"
   CAL_ARGS=""
   TIDY_HTML_ARGS="-asxhtml -n -utf8"
   TIDY_XML_ARGS="-xml -n -utf8 -wrap 0"
   ATOM_CATFEEDS="1"
   RSS_CATFEEDS="1"
   RSS2_CATFEEDS="1"
   MAX_CACHE_ENTRIES="$MAX_ENTRIES"
   BLOG_CACHEMNG="1"
   METADATA_CLOSETAG="END-----"
   $cat .ftprc
   open ftp.xxx.xxx.xxx
   login username password
   cd blog
   mput *
   mirror -R archives
   mirror -R data
   mirror -R templates
   mirror -R jsFortune only first time
   mirror -R moods only first time
   bye
   

   Then modify the templates according to your need, here gives my templates to refer to:

   $wget -r -p -np -k http://www.flyzhy.org/blog/templates
   

5. Updating Blog

   $cd ~/blog
   $nb -u [all] && cp index.html index.htm && nb -P
   

Download: [blog/blog.conf] [blog/.ftprc]

Remember learn more from NanoBlogger User Manual to resolve your problems.

Related Links:

• NanoBlogger
• nbcom
• jsFortune
• Kevin Wood's Web Site(nlxt3r)