Blog farming with pyblosxom and apache2

I'm having some trouble figuring out how to get multiple pyblosxom
instances workingi on the same server. I thought I could do it like so:

    <VirtualHost *>
	    ServerName foo.example.com
	    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
	    DocumentRoot /var/www/foo
	    RewriteEngine On
	    RewriteRule   ^/blogs/([^?]+)(.*)$ /cgi-bin/pyblosxom.cgi$2 [E=SCRIPT_FILENAME:/etc/pyblosxom/$1]
    </VirtualHost>

with files in /etc/pyblosxom named for each blog. For example,
/etc/pyblosxom/foobar would serve up http://foo.example.com/blogs/foobar
once the elements of /etc/pyblosxom/foobar were all configured.

This doesn't seem to work for me; I just get apache errors saying:

    File does not exist: /var/www/foo/cgi-bin

when I can clearly stat /usr/lib/cgi-bin/pyblosxom.cgi from the command
line.

Can anyone point me to some information on how to do this correctly?

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need help with comments.py

Hi,

I installed Pyblosxom 1.4.3 on a Debian Lenny System. Works great so
far and I'm having much fun with it, but unfortunately there is one
thing I can't get to work: support for comments.

When I'm trying to submit a comment, the response is "an internal
server error occured". The comment file gets written, but the article
page will never load again. From apache error-log: 
"[ERROR] comments: bad comment
file: /home/sha/myblog/entries/comments/perfect-privacy-12434773"
more output: http://pastebin.com/fdf1e098

I'm using the comment-plugin from the contrib-1.3.3 tarball.

Any ideas..?

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pyblosxom doesn't seem to manage utf-8 with french language

Hi everyone,

I have filled the #2781177 bug.

I'm using the following configuration : 
py["blog_language"] = "fr"
py["blog_encoding"] = "utf-8"
py["locale"] = "fr_FR.UTF-8"

When executing pyblosxom : 
# pyblosxom-cmd staticrender
pyblosxom-cmd version 1.5 dev
Trying to import the config module....
Performing static rendering.
rendering 2 entries.
rendering 1 category indexes.
rendering 4 date indexes.
rendering 0 arbitrary urls.
(before) building 7 files.
building 7 files.
rendering '/firstpost.html' ...
rendering '/maparticipation.html' ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pyblosxom-cmd", line 5, in ?
    pkg_resources.run_script('pyblosxom==1.5', 'pyblosxom-cmd')
  File
"/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.4.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 448, in run_script
    self.require(requires)[0].run_script(script_name, ns)
  File
"/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.4.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 1166, in run_script

Updated markdown plugin

New markdown plugin for pyblosxom that uses python-markdown 2.0:

    http://gist.github.com/93153

Can this be added to the plugin registry?

The old markdown plugin that is still linked to in the pyblosxom
plugin registry is a very old one. It contains a complete
implementation of markdown inside the plugin itself, it's buggy, and
it's unmaintained.

A while ago Benjamin Mako Hill posted a better plugin that uses
[python-markdown], the leading implementation of markdown in python,
rather than implementing markdown in the plugin itself. I've now
updated that plugin to use the new python-markdown 2.0. This is much
less buggy than the old markdown plugin that's in the registry,
python-markdown is actively maintained, and python-markdown has a
_lot_ of nice extra features in the extensions that come with it.
Since we (the pyblosxom community) need only maintain a pyblosxom
plugin that uses python-markdown via python-markdown's stable API, we
will not need to release new versions of the plugin when bugs are
fixed and features added to python-markdown, users can update their
versions of python-markdown and the pyblosxom plugin will continue to
work.

[python-markdown]: http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/

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support multiple comments per file

Reviewers: pyblosxom-users,

Message:
hi all! this change added support for multiple comments in a single
file. it also added a script for "compacting" all comments for an entry
into a single file.

this improves performance for entries with large numbers of comments,
which otherwise have to glob, stat, and read a large number of comment
files during rendering.

i've uploaded it to http://codereview.appspot.com/ , which is a
lightweight, web-based code review tool. if anyone's interested in
reviewing it, please do!

(ignore the comments.js change; it's unrelated. it was supposed to go
in, but i didn't mean to check it in in this change.)

thanks in advance...

Description:
hi all! this change add support for multiple comments in a single file.
it also adds a script for "compacting" all comments for an entry into a
single file.

this improves performance for entries with large numbers of comments,
which otherwise have to glob, stat, and read a large number of comment
files during rendering.

(ignore the comments.js change; it's unrelated. it was supposed to go

pagination

Hi,

I set num_entries to 5 in my config.py and now 5 entries are showing on
my blog. There doesn't seem to be a link to older entries though - is
this something I have missed in my template or something?

Best,

Chris.

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how to identify entry page in templates

I am using http://disqus.com/ for comments in my blog, it require
different javascript code to embed into the blog entry pages and index
pages, How can I differentiate entry page and index page in templates
in order to insert the right javascript?

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Solving the 500 Internal error from ImportError

Hi,

I'm new to Pyblosxom but have some Python experience.

I managed to get Pyblosxom 1.4.3 up and running by following
<http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/1.4/manual/install_cgi.html> but
putting config.py and pyblosxom.cgi in my base dir. It worked fine
until I tried to click on the permalink to my first test entry. The
permalink went to "http://domain.com/first-post.html" and not
surprisingly it 404ed.

So I thought OK, maybe I was trying to be too clever, and I should put
my config.py and pyblosxom.cgi in a cgi-bin dir after all. (I have no
idea what difference it makes, CGI is one thing I know nothing about.
I use Dreamhost shared hosting and I was just taking a punt that it
would work at all. :))

So I created the cgi-bin directory and moved config.py and
pyblosxom.cgi there, and made my nice relative paths in config.py into
absolute paths.

Running ./pyblosxom.cgi in the command line works without
show-stopping complaint, but the website produces a 500 error thanks
to not being able to import the right script.

http://laugher.id.au/cgi-bin/pyblosxom.cgi

I have the codebase parameter set. I tried running python from the
cgi-bin dir, doing this:

Getting 404 for urls that end in .[flavour]

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UTF-8 in config.py

Hi,

I need to serve pages in UTF-8, and have set up a head.html in my
flavor that starts as follows:

---<---------------cut here---------------start-------------->---
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
	  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

  <head>
    <title>$blog_title_with_path $pi_da $pi_mo $pi_yr</title>
    <link rel="author" href="http://my/url" />
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
    	  content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8" />
---<---------------cut here---------------end---------------->---

This allows for serving UTF-8 characters in stories and in any files of
the flavor.  However, if any of these characters are used in
/etc/pyblosxom/config.py, then the engine fails and the following error
is displayed:

---<---------------cut here---------------start-------------->---
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster <at> localhost and inform them of the time the error
occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
---<---------------cut here---------------end---------------->---

For instance, trying to set:

py['blog_description'] = "Canción"

Any ideas on how to get around this?  Thanks.

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Re: pyblosxom rewrite and comments

On Monday 05 May 2008 16:25:06 sigi wrote:
> I activated mod_rewrite with a .htaccess-file as mentioned in your
> documentation with:
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteRule  ^(.*)$ /cgi-bin/pyblosxom.cgi/$1  [last]

That's what I'm using. It took me a while to get around to using mod_rewrite, 
but it does make for much clearer URLs.

> The rewriting works well, but I can't get the comments-plugin working
> now: It simply rejects all incoming comments.
> My datadir is set to /var/www/ - if I set comment_dir to
> /var/www/comments (where it's located) or not, doesn't make any
> difference.

> The standard form-method in my comments-form looks like
> <form method="post" action="$base_url/$file_path.$flavour#comment_anchor"
> name="comments_form"> I also tried to give the static url,
> /cgi-bin/pyblosxom.cgi included, but that didn't help.

I was having some issues with submitting comments. I think it was related to 
whether people came to my site with a URL without the www. I ended up 
changing my comment-form.html to hard-code the base URL as below

<form method="post" action="/cgi-bin/pyblosxom.cgi/$file_path"

That seems to work.

Good luck.

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