OctBlog is powered by Flask and MongoDB, here are some instructions on how to run it.
(sudo) pip install -r requirements.txt
MongoDB is flexible, migrating database is not necessary.
Run OctBlog with this command:
python manage.py runserverThen you can visit the blog with url: http://127.0.0.1:5000
If you want to customize manage.py, checkout Flask-Script
Visit the following url and create a superuser
http://127.0.0.1:5000/accounts/registration/su
If the url is forbidden, you need to modify your configurations to allow the creation.
The admin home is: http://127.0.0.1:5000/admin
You will be redirected to login page if you haven't logged in
You either change settings in app/OctBlog/config.py file, or set the environment variables defined in this file.
Setting environment variables is recommended, and once the configuration is changed, you need to restart the service.
By default, OctBlog uses dev settings, prd is used in product environment. You can overwrite these settings or create your custom settings and switch to it.
If you don't want to use the default settings, just set a settings environment vairable.
I usually set the environment vairable in bash with export command. For example, if I want to run OctBlog in product environment, I will switch to prd settings like this:
export config=prd
I recommend you to deploy OctBlog with Ubuntu + nginx + gunicorn.
Here is an instruction, and it is enough.
Deploying OctBlog with docker is another recommended option
If you find a bug or want to add a new feature, just issue me.
Want to contribute? Please fork OctBlog and pull request to me.
I'm not good at frontend development, so I used a free bootstrap blog theme. If you can redesign the blog theme and admin interface, I'll appriciate your work very much!