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A super light Markdown based blog

lightblog

Why use light blog over Wordpress or Drupal?

1. It's simple
2. It doesn't need a database
3. It's lightweight
4. No installation required, just drag and drop files

Installation in 10 simple steps

1. First of all get yourself a copy of the files by clicking here (.zip) or by git cloning

2. Now you need to install the whole folder onto your linux webserver.

3. Make sure that there's a file called .htaccess. If not create one containing this code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

4. Now open app/config.ini in your favourite text editor. Change the site.url variable to the location of index.php. For example: http://example.com or http://example.com/folder/. Just remember to include a trailing slash

5. Change the blog info to match your blog. Now save the file back onto your webserver

6. Now open app/views/layout.html.php. You'll see some HTML code. Between the code <!-- the sidebar--> and <!--End custom sidebar--> you can add whatever you want. We've put a <ul> list in for you, but you can have anything!

7. Now create you first post using Markdown. The syntax help is here. You must begin your document with #Title here otherwise it won't work!

8. Call your file: YYYY-MM-DD_a-title.md

9. Now refresh the page

10. Your blog is complete!

Credits

Making light blog wouldn't have been possible without (in no particular order...)

• PHP Markdown
• Composer
• PHP RSS Writer
• Dispatch

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.