Re: Simple and secure blogging software for nginx

2022-03-11 Thread songbird
Christian Britz wrote: ... > Running and writing the blog. At the moment I tend to a static > generator, which would probably also make archival easier?! that is what hugo is. many themes to choose from or do your own. songbird

Re: Simple and secure blogging software for nginx

2022-03-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 12:48:28PM -0400, Chris Mitchell wrote: > I believe Apache and nginx both have fairly robust support for popular > server-side languages like PHP, so many toolkits will work happily on > top of either one. nginx can be told to contact php-fpm in order to run PHP scripts.

Re: Simple and secure blogging software for nginx

2022-03-11 Thread Christian Britz
Thank you for your thoughts, Russel, On 2022-03-11 18:40 UTC+0100, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Christian is talking about three different projects, each of which is > demanding of time. > > Securing and maintaining a web server is a difficult matter. But when > you can purchase hosting for US$4

Re: Simple and secure blogging software for nginx

2022-03-11 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 08:19:02AM -0500, songbird wrote: Christian Britz wrote: ... Thank you, I allow my self to reply on the list. I heard that WordPress is very common, but I fear it might be oversized for my public diary about moving to a new town, which I plan to write. And it is very

Re: Simple and secure blogging software for nginx

2022-03-11 Thread Chris Mitchell
On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 22:39:34 +0100 Christian Britz wrote: > Sure, I think I was not precise in my posting. I am willing to add > something dynamic, and I was not sure if Apache and nginx support the > same toolkits. > > You and others brought in several static content generators, I will >

Re: Simple and secure blogging software for nginx

2022-03-11 Thread songbird
Christian Britz wrote: ... > Thank you, I allow my self to reply on the list. > I heard that WordPress is very common, but I fear it might be oversized > for my public diary about moving to a new town, which I plan to write. > And it is very often in the news with security holes... Don't want some

Re: Simple and secure blogging software for nginx

2022-03-11 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Take a look at https://dotclear.org/ which is PHP based. Some time ago Debian also had it packaged. Regards, Jörg.

Re: Simple and secure blogging software for nginx

2022-03-11 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-11 06:06 UTC+0100, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Life is too short to mess around with a markup language other than > LaTeX. Work always in LaTeX. Next topic on my learning agenda. :-) -- http://www.cb-fraggle.de

Re: Simple and secure blogging software for nginx

2022-03-10 Thread Russell L. Harris
I am a long-time user of Debian, Emacs, and LaTeX. I began blogging with version 1.0 of WordPress, but soon I grew weary of the constant need to upgrade. Over the years I have tried many (if not most) of the blogging engines, hoping to find a static engine which could read LaTeX markup. I even

Re: Simple and secure blogging software for nginx

2022-03-10 Thread paulf
On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 22:14:18 +0100 Christian Britz wrote: > > > On 2022-03-10 22:09 UTC+0100, Kevin Exton wrote: > > You need a blogging CMS like WordPress, or alternatively some kind > > of static site generator like GatsbyJS. Not sure what is or isn't > > in the Debian repositories though... 

Re: Simple and secure blogging software for nginx

2022-03-10 Thread paulf
On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 22:06:34 +0100 Christian Britz wrote: > Dear community, > > I am looking for recommendations for setting up a blog with nginx web > server. What I have so far: nginx-light with static pages. > > What would I need to be able to host a blog? I search something as > simple and

Re: Simple and secure blogging software for nginx

2022-03-10 Thread Kevin Exton
Static site generators are very nice to use. Gives you a simple text editor for writing and then you just let the generator link all the pages and add the pre-defined styling. Never have to run down broken links again. They take a little configuring to get it right initially though so you need a

Re: Simple and secure blogging software for nginx

2022-03-10 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-10 22:16 UTC+0100, Dan Ritter wrote: > nginx is just a web server, apache is just a web server. Nearly > any blog can be set up with either one of them, or a number of > other servers. Static sites don't need language support in the > server at all. Sure, I think I was not precise

Re: Simple and secure blogging software for nginx

2022-03-10 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-10 22:28 UTC+0100, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 10:06:34PM +0100, Christian Britz wrote: >> I am looking for recommendations for setting up a blog with nginx web >> server. What I have so far: nginx-light with static pages. >> >> What would I need to be able to host

Re: Simple and secure blogging software for nginx

2022-03-10 Thread Dan Ritter
Christian Britz wrote: > Dear community, > > I am looking for recommendations for setting up a blog with nginx web > server. What I have so far: nginx-light with static pages. > > What would I need to be able to host a blog? I search something as > simple and secure as possible, there will be

Re: Simple and secure blogging software for nginx

2022-03-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 10:06:34PM +0100, Christian Britz wrote: > I am looking for recommendations for setting up a blog with nginx web > server. What I have so far: nginx-light with static pages. > > What would I need to be able to host a blog? A text editor, to create the static pages.

Re: Simple and secure blogging software for nginx

2022-03-10 Thread der.hans
Am 10. Mar, 2022 schwätzte Christian Britz so: moin moin Christian, I have been playing with jekyll, a static site generator. I have a few friends using it. The main reason I've gone with jekyll is that the AsciiDoc module is in the package repo. Many static site generators seem to have

Re: Simple and secure blogging software for nginx

2022-03-10 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-10 22:09 UTC+0100, Kevin Exton wrote: > You need a blogging CMS like WordPress, or alternatively some kind of > static site generator like GatsbyJS. Not sure what is or isn't in the > Debian repositories though...  Thank you, I allow my self to reply on the list. I heard that

Simple and secure blogging software for nginx

2022-03-10 Thread Christian Britz
Dear community, I am looking for recommendations for setting up a blog with nginx web server. What I have so far: nginx-light with static pages. What would I need to be able to host a blog? I search something as simple and secure as possible, there will be very low traffic. It should be