Incorporating Blosxom in an Existing Website
Here’s how I configured my website to use Blosxom as its CMS (content management system - a fancy term for the way a site is organized). My requirements were:
- The root URL (www.kcaran.com) had to point to blosxom.cgi.
- The URL’s to blog entries should look like static links (e.g., http://www.kcaran.com/entries/technology/linux/debian_upgrade_woes.html
- Files and directories outside of Blosxom should be accessible as before. My Fantasy Football pages should still reside at http://www.kcaran.com/footb/. And I should be able to create new files and directories without changing the web server configuration.
Once you have Blosxom configured and working the way you want, place
it in a directory named blosxom under your root web directory.
For me, that would be /var/www/caran/blosxom.
[caran@mlougee caran]$ pwd /var/www/caran [caran@mlougee caran]$ ll blosxom/ total 60 drwxrwsr-x 9 caran www-data 4096 Oct 7 14:17 ./ drwxrwsr-x 25 caran www-data 4096 Oct 7 14:27 ../ -rw-rw-r-- 1 caran www-data 14 Sep 29 08:57 .cvsignore drwxrwsr-x 2 caran www-data 4096 Oct 7 14:54 CVS/ -rwxrwxr-x 1 caran www-data 16784 Oct 7 14:17 blosxom.cgi* drwxrwsr-x 3 caran www-data 4096 Oct 5 12:29 css/ drwxrwsr-x 4 caran www-data 4096 Oct 7 13:41 entries/ -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 0 Oct 7 14:16 error_log.txt drwxrwxr-x 3 caran www-data 4096 Oct 7 14:54 feedback/ drwxrwsr-x 3 caran www-data 4096 Oct 7 14:23 flavours/ drwxrwsr-x 3 caran www-data 4096 Oct 4 14:34 images/ drwxrwsr-x 4 caran www-data 4096 Oct 5 12:30 plugins/
Last Updated: Thu, 17 Nov 2005