Hixie's Web log system, as used by http://ln.hixie.ch/ and
http://blog.wuki.net/ and http://www.dummy-blog.org/.


REQUIREMENTS
============

 * Apache
     with mod_headers

 * MySQL 3.23.46

 * CVS 1.10.7

 * Expat

 * Perl 5.005_03, including:
     DBI (comes with Perl)
     Data::Dumper (comes with Perl)
     File::Basename (comes with Perl)
     HTML::Entities (comes with Perl)
     HTTP::Headers (comes with Perl)
     HTTP::Negotiate (comes with Perl)
     MIME::Base64 (comes with Perl)
     MIME::Parser (comes with Perl)
     Net::SMTP (comes with Perl)
     Term::ReadLine (comes with Perl)

 * TemplateToolkit 2

 * XML::Parser

 * RPC::XML (this can be a pain to install)

Earlier versions of these programs or modules may work but have not
been tested.


INSTALLATION
============

# change to the directory that is the parent of the directory in which you want the blog to reside
cd ~/parent/of/blog/directory

# get the blog software
wget http://software.hixie.ch/applications/blog/blog.tar.gz
tar xvfz blog.tar.gz

# rename the "blog" directory to whatever you want to call it
mv blog blogDirectory

# enter that directory
cd blogDirectory

# get PLIF from mozilla CVS (password is anonymous)
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot login
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot co -d PLIF mozilla/webtools/PLIF

# update the permissions
chmod ugo+x index
chmod -R go-w ./

# run setup
./index setup

# to use the blog, just point the browser at the directory