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The Blosxom for Mac OS X Installer

The Blosxom for Mac OS X installer performs all of the installation and configuration steps you'd have to do by hand.

Here, for the curious, is a laundry-list of all that's taken care of for you on a fresh install:

• blosxom.cgi, the Blosxom CGI script itself, is installed to /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/blosxom.cgi.
• A Blosxom folder, in which to keep all of your weblog posts, is created at /Library/WebServer/Documents/Blosxom and an empty blog folder for static rendering (should you choose to use it) at /Library/WebServer/Documents/blog.
• A plug-in directory is created at /Library/WebServer/Data/Blosxom/plugins/ and populated with some of the more popular and useful Blosxom plug-ins the likes of: writeback, wikieditish, breadcrumbs, config, interpolate_conditional, sort_by_name, sort_by_path.
• An Apache configuration file at /etc/httpd/users/blosxom.conf containing a directive telling the Apache Web server to alias /weblog to /cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi for a prettier URL.
• The blog is pre-populated with some on-board documentation in the form of blog entries, all residing in a sub-folder, /Library/WebServer/Documents/Blosxom/docs.
• Some sample flavours are dropped into /Library/WebServer/Documents/Blosxom to get you started off on the right foot with an attractive blog to call home.
• For your convenience, an alias to the Blosxom folder, home of your blog entries, is created on your Desktop.
• Various permissions and configuration options are set. You're prompted (optionally) for some of the latter via a series of dialog boxes.
• Your Web server is (re)started and you're automagically transported to your weblog in your favourite Web browser. The URL used is http://127.0.0.1/weblog/docs, 127.0.0.1 referring to your computer's name for itself.

Upgrading does everything installing does, moving any extant bits out of the way first and stamping them with the current date and time.

So, blosxom.cgi would be renamed blosxom.cgi.datestamp and the blosxom datadir and blog staticdir to blosxom.datestamp and blog.datestamp respectively. Permissions on the old blosxom.cgi.datestamp CGI script are changed so as to disable it. The installer simply overwrites the blosxom.conf Apache configuration file each time.

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