• the_pit — A simple blog software that uses plaintext files
  • HISTORY
    • DEPENDENCES
    • NGINX INSTALLATION
  • FEATURES
  • HOW TO USE
  • LICENSE

the_pit — A simple blog software that uses plaintext files

HISTORY

One day I wrote this because I think most CMS are garbage and I had to create a good one myself.

INSTALLATION

DEPENDENCES

• fcgi
• nginx
• Text::Markdown
• CGI
• DBD::Pg (optional, if you want comments)

NGINX INSTALLATION

It has been tested in nginx so this configuration is guaranteed to work under nginx.

  location /blog { # Or any location you want
    try_files $uri $uri/ /blog/blog.cgi # This makes all requests go to the same file
  }

FEATURES

• Runs on anything that runs perl and nginx
• Written in perl instead of python.
• RSS
• Depends on CGI only

HOW TO USE

After installing the_pit, you only drop files which have to have the following naming scheme: yyyymmdd.whatever.txt "whatever" can be whatever or can be nothing. Drop the files in the blogroot and the_pit will do the rest.

You may edit the footer.html and header.html according to your needs. And you can put whatever info you want in notes.html. These files are hardcoded in the perl script.

LICENSE

Public domain.