Playing more with blogging tools
May 17th, 2004 by HenMainly we looked at Roller in tonight’s investigation, but before I get onto that in the next post, we spent a bit of time on other blog tools.
I figured out my problem with Blojsom, there’s what appeared to be an optional configuration in the installation instructions, but is actually essential: blojsom-default-user. Once I fixed that, the blog itself worked fine, however the basic setup appears to be to create webpages by hand (or vi). David Czarnecki mentioned in an email that there’s an entire admin system, and gave me a couple of links to set it up, so sometime tomorrow I’ll play with that.
Pebble still refutes my attempts to set it up. It runs happily without error, but won’t let me log in. More effort needed there. [Carrie wants it to have a component called BamBam. Too much TV, not enough video games as a kid. ]
Blogmento refuses to do the publish step. Unsure how to debug this, but attempting to scp to the server. One bad part with blogmento, the password is is shown in plaintext.
Lastly, I installed SnipSnap. Nice and easy, Carrie has not looked at it yet as she doesn’t have much interest in the idea of trying to customise a wiki to the extent she would want to customise her website/blog.