Simple Blog engine powered by Camping.
Posts are written in Markdown, saved on Dropbox and stored in Redis.
Create a new markdown file with filename in the following format: %Y%m%d%H%M.md
in the Amanda dropbox folder.
First lines must contain the title
, date
and can contain tags
and / or slug
. Followed by your post.
e.g.
Title: Hello World
Date: 2013-04-17 22:57
Tags: tags, are, comma, separated
Slug: this-slug-is-optional
Hello World, first post!
To publish your new post hit the configured refresh url, e.g. http://blog.example.com/{your_refresh_path}
On the index page it always shows the most recent post and one random post.
Push the app to Heroku and configure following environment variables:
DROPBOX_APP_KEY=your_dropbox_app_key
DROPBOX_APP_SECRET=your_dropbox_app_secret
OPENREDIS_URL=redis://127.0.0.1:6379 # set by Heroku on choosing service
REDIS_SERVICE=OPENREDIS_URL # set your redis service
AUTHOR=Koen Van der Auwera
TITLE=Koen Van der Auwera's blog
HAVEAMINT=http://your.mint.installation.url/?js # optional!
SECRET=Some super session secret
REFRESH_PATH=/refresh
FEEDPRESS_URL=http://feedpress.me/atog
DISQUS_SHORTNAME=atog
Fixes? Questions? Improvements? Let me know. Please.
Copyright (c) 2013 Koen Van der Auwera
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