reBlog 0.9 beta Caveats ------- Before going onto trying to install, there are few main points that should be made clear: 1) The reblog system requires the use of MySQL as the backend storage mechanism and a web server capable of interpreting PHP and Perl. 2) The Movable Type plugin we have provided will modify the structure of one of the database tables used in Movable Type, but should not break any current installation you may be running. Installation Instructions ------------------------- General ------- The main focus in reBlog 0.9 beta was to decouple the RSS filtering system (i.e. ReceSS) from the content management (i.e. blog plugins). This has resulted in drastically reduced complexity of installation. Upgrading from 0.1 beta ----------------------- If you are upgrading your reBlog setup from the previous 0.1 version, please see the file UPGRADE in this directory immediately. ReceSS ------ Files: ./recess Please see ./recess/INSTALL for ReceSS-specific installation instructions Plugins ------- Movable Type ------------ Files: ./mt3 Please see ./mt3/INSTALL for Movable Type 3.0 (thru 3.1) Plugin-specific installation instructions ReceSS Installation ------------------- 1) Edit the file config.php to contain the correct DB connection information. - If needed, create a MySQL DB for ReceSS. Or, you can use an existing DB. 2) Upload the entire tree to wherever on your server you want FEED ON FEEDS to live. 3) Load the page http://{your server}/{wherever you put FEED ON FEEDS}/install.php. The installer will first check that it can connect to your DB, and then attempt to create the necessary two tables. Then, it will attempt to create a subdirectory called cache where it will store cached copies of RSS feeds. This part of the installation may fail, as your PHP process may not have permission to create a directory. You may need to create the directory {wherever you uploaded FEED ON FEEDS to}/cache/ yourself, and make sure it is writable by the PHP process. If you needed to do that, reload install.php. 4) Play around and figure out how it works. It's pretty straightforward. Or see the REAME file in this directory. These instructions, like the code for ReceSS itself, are laregly hijacked from the Feed on Feeds site itself -- http://minutillo.com/steve/feedonfeeds/ -- which has more instructions on how to install/use the tool. reBlog Plugin for Movable Type 3.0D Installation ------------------------------------------------ Once you have a working installation of Movable Type 3.0D (http://www.movabletype.org) 1) Copy ./plugins/* to the plugins directory of your Movable Type 3.0 installation 2) Make sure that both files are world-readable and that reblog_action.cgi is world executable 3) Log into any page in Movable Type 4) See the README file in this directory for instructions as to how to configure the reBlog plugin and import reBlog posts.