Blog/Content management software that DOESN'T rely on PHP/mysql?

pseudonomous · 2010-09-10 03:13:13

Hello all,

I was wondering if anyone knows of any blog/content management software that isn't reliant on PHP? So far I've found thingamablog which generates content client-side and is written in Java, but I was more interested in running something server-side.

It's not that I absolutely CAN'T run PHP and SQL, since I'm running stuff on my own server, but I'm trying to avoid PHP and SQL mainly to simplify administration on may part; if I don't install PHP I don't have to worry about trying to configure it properly. (There's just so many modules, it gives me a headache ... plus updating the software, watching for security vulnerabilities,...), same for SQL; my distrust of Oracle makes me want to avoid MySQL in particular. And ... well it's enough learning how to deal with apache, html, firewalls and various FreeBSD-isms (I'm running FreeBSD on the server, my main difficulty has been adjusting the "jail" paradigm versus OS-virtualization, they're similar but deal with networking in a VERY different way), I don't also want to deal with configuring PHP and an SQL server too. At least not right now (later on, I do want to learn how to manage these other things).

I'm sure I could just hack something together with shell scripts ( the only programming language I'm truly comfortable with ), but this leaves me short of a good tagging or search mechanism and I've got no bright ideas on how to implement this from the shell.

I figured I'd ask here to see if anybody was aware of anything already existing or had any suggestions

Thanks!

xvello · 2010-09-11 09:37:44

I assume you want to avoid any kind of server-side scripting and database. In that case, there are many bash/perl/... scripts able to generate a static blog for you. For example : http://nanoblogger.sourceforge.net/

codycarey · 2010-09-11 17:37:06

Personally I use Django (http://www.djangoproject.com/) for 95% of my web-based applications. It's written in Python, it's powerful, and it's easy to learn. I believe there are a couple of pre-made blogging applications out there for it as well. Django supports SQLite as well, since you don't seem to want to deal with a lot of the configuration issues of heavier databases.

My personal setup uses Lighttpd to serve static content (images, some documents, etc.) and FastCGI for running Django.

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pseudonomous · 2010-09-13 16:56:38

Thanks for the replies, I though I remembered reading about something like nanoblogger, but couldn't remember the name (it probably was nanoblogger). This seems most promising to me because it lets me keep everything nice and static.

I'll look at Django too, though, Python seems like it's probably a bit less of an administrative headache than php since I've got python on the jail host anyway. Anyway, thanks for your suggestions xvello and codycarey.

Franek · 2010-10-16 13:20:43

There is also BlazeBlogger*. I have never tried it, though.

* http://blaze.blackened.cz/

jdarnold · 2010-10-16 14:38:20

You could try TiddllyWiki, a very clever singlefile "wiki" software that can (and does!) do most anything:

http://www.tiddlywiki.com/

Dieter@be · 2010-10-17 08:37:21

pyblosxom, a handful of python code, only plaintext files.
I'm working on migrating to it

rwd · 2010-10-17 10:57:51

<html><body>Welcome to my blog!</body></html>

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kinhodder · 2010-10-17 19:57:34

A few more options:

http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll - a static site generator in Ruby
http://github.com/lakshmivyas/hyde - a Python clone of the above
http://webby.rubyforge.org/ - a bit more flexible
http://nanoc.stoneship.org/ - a bit more sophisticated

There are loads of these SSGs out there (hundreds?!) but the above are ones I've tried and can recommend (Backblaze too - that's probably the easiest of the lot to get up and running.)

pseudonomous · 2010-10-18 16:29:21

Wow, thanks for all the new replies! I've been using nanoblogger for awhile now. Feature-wise, it does pretty much exactly what I want. The only downside is it's slow and default css style is kind-of complex. (It's not byzantine, but it's a bit much for beginner to try and work with).

I may try some of the other suggested software projects here (blazeblogger seems promising, it's CLI based, which I like, and it's written in perl so it's potentially reasonably fast), but I've also been considering just giving in and installing one of the dependency-rich popular CMSs, most likely drupal or plone. But thanks again for all your suggestions, I had no idea there were this many choices.

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