pages tagged phplelutin.cahttps://lelutin.ca//tags/php/lelutin.caikiwiki2013-09-15T03:24:57Zsetting up a bloghttps://lelutin.ca//posts/setting_up_a_blog/2013-09-15T03:24:57Z2013-09-15T02:49:08Z
<p>Well well well... Setting up a simple blog is more work than I thought.<br/>
With work stealing all my time, finding some time to actually dig into setting up a blog meant skipping a night's sleep.</p>
<p>Here's my choice: a plain Drupal 7 with the following modules: Markdown, Tagadelic, CAPTCHA, Ajax comments, Pathauto.</p>
<p>I won't go into too much details about setting up Drupal, since it's pretty easy for such a simple site. I got most of my inspiration for the setup from <a href="http://dag.wieers.com/blog/mistakes-made-when-using-drupal-as-personal-blog">this site</a>.</p>
<p>I'm using Apache for now but I intend to <a href="http://www.debian-tutorials.com/mysql/how-to-install-nginx-php5-mysql-phpmyadmin-in-debian-squeeze-with-config-examples">switch to nginx</a> soon to give myself an opportunity to play around with it since it seems like a pretty nice and powerful web server. I'll probably have some tales to tell about installation, config and <a href="https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/module-nginx">integration with puppet</a> by then.</p>
<p>The hardest part now, will be finding a beautiful <a href="http://drupal.org/project/Themes">theme</a> and to customize it. (edit: well, I checked out all of the themes there and nothing caught my eyes except for Dartik, which is a dark variation of the Bartik theme -- the default D7 theme)</p>
<p>Stay tuned, I promiss I'll make the non-initial posts more interesting. This post is mostly here to have some content and to test how things work/look.</p>