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+title: creating my blog using Nikola
+slug: creating-my-blog-using-nikola
+date: 2017-05-30T21:18:45-06:00
+tags:
+- blog
+- documentation
+- web
+- nikola
+draft: false
+---
+I switched to [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/getting-started/configuration/), see [this post](https://blog.ewpt3ch.dev/posts/mv-blog/)
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+I decided to use [Nikola](https://getnikola.com/). It produces a static site from txt files in various formats, I chose [Markdown](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax) to be served directly by nginx on my server. Installation was pretty simple.
+
+First make sure virtualenv is installed
+
+    $ sudo pip install virtualenv
+    $ test the install
+    $ virtualenv --version
+    
+Next we install Nikola
+
+    $ virtualenv nikola
+    $ source nikola/bin/activate
+    $ pip install --upgrade "Nikola[extras]"
+    Successfully installed Nikola
+
+Now we have the tool installed, to exit the nikola environment use deactivate, everytime I blog use "source ~/nikola/bin/activate". Next we setup the site, without demo pages.
+
+    $ nikola init name_my_site
+    answer the questions in the wizard
+    edit path_to_blog/conf.py PAGES, POSTS, and COMPILERS to setup markdown
+    add a post
+    $ nikola new_post -e
+    rebuild the site
+    $ nikola build
+
+Now we have a site that is ready for deployment to a server.  Things that are coming later: scripts to enter and exit the virtualenv and deploy the posts automatically.