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I'm a Vietnamese cis woman born and currently living in the U.S. You may know me from Sandwich, from Twitter or Mastodon (same username), or on Twitch as Sharkaeopteryx. I do not have a Discord or Bluesky account.
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...so that I can run a blog for my personal website, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get it running on NearlyFreeSpeech. I'm pretty sure I'm missing some dependencies, and I'm not tech savvy enough to figure out how to install them.
Does anyone know of a nice free non-wordpress blogging engine that's easy to install? I don't need anything super fancy, but I want to at least be able to share art and photos.
I use Publii for this: https://cohost.org/Cania/post/1887222-i-made-a-guide-on-ho
it's a word-press like GUI that runs locally and generates static HTML files. it can automatically upload changed files via FTP (which doesn't work on Neocities but should work on NFS) so you don't have to mess with the hosting side as much.
it's not open source which is my only annoyance
Oooh, thanks so much for making me aware of this! This might be exactly what I need.
I'm in the process of writing a guide for Grav, which is not ideal but at least makes it easy to Post from a web frontend (so one can Post from a phone). I've already got the install process on NFSN down to "paste these commands one at a time into the run shell command box and you're done".
https://hypertext.artofthesmart.com/ this is the theme I'm basing my guide around, if you don't loath it (see also here) I can paste the install stuff here.
Or if "set up a local php environment" sounds like something easy to do, you could just do that and mess with it locally. It's not something I want to do so I have no advice for it lol
Oooh, yeah, I would love to get the install commands so I can tinker with this.
copy pasting directly from my local draft:
Now if you know what a SSH is and you're comfortable doing that, you should SSH in now. All of the info you need is in the SSH/SFTP information table, and yes, it's password auth. If you don't want to do this, there's a text button over on the right side that says "Run Shell Command". Go there. We will be running everything as "me", which should be the default option. The bad news is we have to do this a few times, the good news is we only have to do it once. If you're in SSH you can just chain all of these together with && and paste it in as one big blob.
I'm going to list these out with info about what they're doing, for your own enrichment. But just copy the text without the surrounding `s.
composer -q create-project getgrav/grav /home/public/ (composer is already installed for us, so we just tell it to grab Grav and dump it in our webroot, which is already being served by apache)
At this point it's good to wait a minute or two, just to make sure that's done running. We've no real visibility into progress doing it this way. After that, you can run the following commands back to back:
sed -i '' "s/# RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} https/RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} https/" /home/public/.htaccess This is a big messy command to uncomment one line in a file. See the member's only wiki page here
sed -i '' "s/# RewriteRule .* - \[E=HTTPS:on\]/RewriteRule .* - \[E=HTTPS:on\]/" /home/public/.htaccess Same thing again.
chown -R $UID:web /home/public/* Permissions fixing, also from the same wiki page. Only difference is we're using the $UID variable to avoid finding out what our user ID is.
find /home/public/. -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \; && find /home/public/bin -type f -exec chmod 775 {} \; More permissons fixing again. There's a character limit for running commands from the UI this way, but we can run two steps at once this time.
find /home/public/ -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \; && find /home/public/ -type d -exec chmod +s {} \; Final round of permissions fixes.
At this point it's good to wait a minute or two again to let all of that wrap up, those commands iterate over the entirety of the Grav install and while not too big, it has a lot of files. Then, finally:
cd /home/public && bin/gpm -q install admin This installs the "admin" plugin in Grav, which is the Web UI control panel.
After a minute or two, that should have finished running, and from here on out we can do Everything in the Web UI for Grav itself.
I should point out that you'd probably want to download the hypertext theme and the feed plugin afterwords, but yea
Thank you so much for this! I managed to get it all up and running and I'm in the process of modifying the Hypertext theme to suit my personal needs.
Probably gonna take a while to completely get it to where I want, but the RSS feed and gallery are up and running! Those where the most important for me to get working before cohost goes down, so thanks again!
Glad it was helpful!
I found something last night in testing: by default the max file upload size (On NFSN) is 10MB. The limitation is actually a PHP setting, not Grav itself, so you have to change it on the server. The best way to do it is setting the variable in the .htaccess, so,
printf "php_value upload_max_filesize 100M\nphp_value post_max_size 101M" >> /home/public/.htaccess
Will set it to 100MB. If you don't think you'll ever post an image larger than 10MB (a good idea since Grav isn't downscaling those for you) then you can skip it.
How did you go about doing the gallery? I've been trying to go about it in a "don't use JS" way but your solution might be better for some people.
Also, if you don't mind, would you be interested in getting in touch to check the draft of my full guide before I post it? I'm trying to have it up by Monday and have some friends use it by then, but since you've already set up a site, you could probably offer good insight for things that are not clearly presented or things I've missed.
Hey, thanks for the heads up about the upload limit. I had no idea.
As for the gallery, I'm currently using a plugin called Shortcode Gallery++ that lets you wrap images in specific tags in the page editor and gives them a thumbnail gallery layout complete with lightbox.
It doesn't work with Hypertext out of the box tho. The gallery layout works, but to get the lightbox working it requires adding some JS includes in the base.html.twig file located in the /home/public/user/themes/hypertext/templates/partials folder.
As per this post from the github, the lines
{% block javascript %} {% do assets.addJs('theme://js/jquery.min.js', {group: 'bottom'}) %} {% do assets.addJs('theme://js/jquery.scrolly.min.js', {group: 'bottom'}) %} {% do assets.addJs('theme://js/jquery.scrollex.min.js', {group: 'bottom'}) %} {% do assets.addJs('theme://js/jquery.dropotron.min.js', {group: 'bottom'}) %} {% do assets.addJs('theme://js/browser.min.js', {group: 'bottom'}) %} {% do assets.addJs('theme://js/breakpoints.min.js', {group: 'bottom'}) %} {% do assets.addJs('theme://js/util.js',{group: 'bottom'}) %} {% do assets.addJs('theme://js/main.js', {group: 'bottom'}) %} {% do assets.addJs('theme://js/custom.js',{group: 'bottom'}) %} {% endblock %} {% block assets deferred %} {{ assets.js()|raw}} {{ assets.css()|raw }} {% endblock %}
need to be added in the <head> section.
And the lines
{% block bottom %} {{ assets.js('bottom')|raw }} {% endblock %}
at the end of the <body> section. After that it should work fine.
Also yeah absolutely! I spent like forever trying to get things working the way I want to, so if I can help make an easy to use guide for other people I'm super willing to talk things over.
I wonder if there's a way to shoehorn that in via Admin instead of messing with the theme directly... :thoink:
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