[TriLUG] Blogging software recommendation

[Alan Porter via TriLUG]

I have moved to a git + jekyll wiki for my own personal notes. It's the 
same as the github solution mentioned earlier, but hosted myself.

Basically, the content is all stored in text files... in plain text or 
markdown format.  From anywhere, I check out my "wiki" git project, 
which contains the content and a special script.  I edit the content 
text files, and then I push my changes back up to the server.

At that point, a post-update hook script runs.  It loops through all of 
the *.txt and *.md files, runs jekyll (a template system that adds the 
layout, top banner, menu, whatever) and it produces a bunch of static 
HTML files.  It also produces an index file that lists the contents of 
the wiki.  It's a pretty simple script, and there's almost nothing that 
needs to be administered or locked down.

You would need a place to host the git repo and the generated HTML.  A 
shell account on the TriLUG server would be a fine choice.

I have a skeleton of the wiki (just the scripts, with no wiki content) 
on my github.  Feel free to borrow and adapt it.

https://github.com/sudoer/simple-jekyll-wiki


Alan




> I have collected a ton of notes over the last few years and need to consolidate it to a single entity (blog/website/etc) so I can reference it later.  This is more for me than anyone else (however, I *hope* other people find it useful)..