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sprout

clone url: git://git.m455.casa/sprout

sprout

a tool that manages an rss-only blog.

probably the ugliest code base, interface, and documentation you'll ever see.

page contents

what's a weed?

"weed" is a transformation of the word "web feed", kind of like how "blog" is a transformation of "web log". the term was originally coined by ~dozens.

what's a web feed?

an rss feed.

why not just make a regular blog post?

the internet can be daunting nowadays, especially with how data is being sold. this makes being yourself online a little more scarier than how things were in the past.

by limiting access to your content by making it rss-only, it's a little less scary (for me anyway). it's not private, but it's also not as public as something that someone can just browse to with an internet browser.

why over RSS?

so many readers for rss exist nowadays, and it's a great way to keep things decentralized.

requirements

installing sprout

sprout generates an rss feed of of your blog posts, and can publish them to a local or remote location. you can choose where you you publish your posts.

following one of the sections below:

installing sprout: for server owners

this section guides you through setting up sprout on your local machine. the setup installs sprout into /usr/local/bin.

follow the steps below to install sprout:

  1. run git clone git://git.m455.casa/sprout
  2. run cd sprout
  3. run make install as root

installing sprout: for tilde town users

this section guides you through setting up sprout on tilde.town. the setup installs sprout into ~/.local/bin.

follow the steps below to install sprout:

  1. run git clone git://git.m455.casa/sprout
  2. run cd sprout
  3. run mkdir -p ~/.local/bin
  4. run make install DESTDIR=~/.local/bin

configuring sprout

sprout comes with a default configuration file that you need to change, depending on your use case.

following one of the sections below:

configuring sprout: for server owners

you need to set up your server, and then configure sprout, so you can publish your posts to your server.

this section assumes you have the following on your server:

configuring your server

follow the steps below as the root user:

  1. run mkdir -p /var/www/weed
  2. run chown -R username:username /var/www/weed
  3. run chmod -R 755 /var/www/weed
  4. add the following to your server {} block in /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com:

location /weed { alias /var/www/weed; index weed.rss; }

  1. run ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/example.com
  2. as root, run systemctl restart nginx

setting up sprout on your local machine

sprout creates the following directory structure in your home directory:

.weed/ ├── build/ ├── config/ └── posts/

follow the steps below on your local machine:

  1. run sprout
  2. agree to the setup
  3. type s
  4. change the title value to the title you want
  5. change the description value to the title you want
  6. change the url-base value to the URL that you want others to access your weed from

for example: (url-base "https://example.com/weed/")

  1. change the output-path to where you want your weed to publish remotely

for example: (output-path "username@example.com:/var/www/weed/")

  1. save the file

note: make sure you include a slash at the end of the url-base and output-path values.

configuring sprout: for tilde town users

you need to set up your ~/public_html directory on tilde.town, and then configure sprout, so you can publish your posts to tilde.town.

sprout creates the following directory structure in your home directory:

.weed/ ├── build/ ├── config/ └── posts/

follow the steps below to set up sprout on tilde.town:

  1. run mkdir ~/public_html/weed
  2. run sprout
  3. agree to the setup
  4. type s
  5. change the title value to the title you want
  6. change the description value to the title you want
  7. change the url-base value to the URL that you want others to access your weed from

for example: (url-base "https://tilde.town/~username/weed/")

  1. change the output-path to where you want your weed to publish locally

for example: (output-path "~/public_html/weed/")

  1. save the file

note: make sure you include a slash at the end of the url-base and output-path values.

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