Eric Phillips
40 lines
1.4 KiB
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40 lines
1.4 KiB
Markdown
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title: creating my blog using Nikola
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slug: creating-my-blog-using-nikola
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date: 2017-05-30T21:18:45-06:00
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tags:
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- blog
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- documentation
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- web
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- nikola
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draft: false
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---
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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.
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First make sure virtualenv is installed
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$ sudo pip install virtualenv
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$ test the install
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$ virtualenv --version
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Next we install Nikola
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$ virtualenv nikola
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$ source nikola/bin/activate
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$ pip install --upgrade "Nikola[extras]"
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Successfully installed Nikola
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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.
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$ nikola init name_my_site
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answer the questions in the wizard
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edit path_to_blog/conf.py PAGES, POSTS, and COMPILERS to setup markdown
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add a post
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$ nikola new_post -e
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rebuild the site
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$ nikola build
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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.
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