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# Setting up Blot on your own machine

This is a short guide to installing Blot on your machine. I develop Blot on OSX and deploy Blot on one of Amazon's Linux distributions. Please note that Blot is not container-ized and this process is *involved*.
This is a short guide to installing Blot on your machine. I develop Blot on OSX and deploy Blot on one of Amazon's Linux distributions. Please note that Blot is not container-ized and this process is *involved*. My grand vision is to eventually remove redis and nginx, and make the setup of a development environment as simple as ```git clone``` and ```npm install```.

## Prerequisites

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http://localhost:8080
```

## Creating a test account
## Creating an account

Since you haven't loaded in Stripe credentials, you'll want to create a new demo user manually:
Since you haven't loaded in Stripe credentials, you'll want to create a new demo user and blog manually:

```
node scripts/user/create example@example.com
```

Use the 'local client' when you set up your blog, since you haven't set up Dropbox credentials either.
Once you have set up an account, create a blog manually:

```
node scripts/blog/create example@example.com example
```

Use the 'local client' when you set up your blog, since you haven't set up Dropbox credentials either.

## Useful scripts

Generate a one-time log-in link for a given username:

```
node scripts/access.js <username>
```

Save and load state of server:

```
node scripts/folder/save.js <label>
node scripts/folder/load.js <label>
```

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