Blot is a site generator. Blot turns a folder into a website. The point of all this — the reason Blot exists — is so you can use your favorite tools to create whatever you publish. This is the source code for the hosted service:

https://blot.im

You can contact us:

support@blot.im

The general architecture of Blot is:

The internet <> Reverse proxy (Openresty) <> Blot (express.js node application) <> Redis

Self-hosting Blot is currently unsupported. Please don’t file issues or contact support about it. I hope to support this properly someday, but not yet.

That said, to get Blot running locally, you will need Docker, mkcert and dnsmasq. 

Once you have Docker installed and running, clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/davidmerfield/blot --depth 1

Blot requires a huge number of subdomains to work e.g.

https://local.blot
https://cdn.local.blot
https://site.local.blot
https://preview-of-blog-on-site.local.blot
https://preview-of-hypertext-on-site.local.blot

etc...

We use dnsmasq to point all requests to the fake TLD '.blot' to the loopback:

brew install dnsmasq
mkdir -pv $(brew --prefix)/etc/
echo 'address=/.blot/127.0.0.1' >> $(brew --prefix)/etc/dnsmasq.conf
echo 'port=53' >> $(brew --prefix)/etc/dnsmasq.conf
sudo brew services start dnsmasq
sudo mkdir -v /etc/resolver
sudo bash -c 'echo "nameserver 127.0.0.1" > /etc/resolver/blot'

To create the SSL certificate required for this to work locally, we use:

brew install mkcert nss

Then start the server:

npm start