Hard to Phlog | |
Wednesday Mar 12 12:06:28 2014 | |
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So,this is what I thought my first real phlog post | |
look like: | |
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Let the phlogging commence! | |
So I am trying some phlog software because it turns | |
out it is not completely trivial to make gopher sites. | |
Let us see if I have set | |
up germ correctly or not. | |
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Turns out the answer was 'no', because it turns out that | |
CGI scripts in gopher have been disabled here on SDF, so | |
there was no way to set it up so it would work. | |
SO YOU CANNOT USE GERM OR SLERM on sdf. No cool comments on | |
your posts or auto-archiving. | |
So I learned two things the hard way while trying to figure out | |
how to start a blog on an almost-dead network: | |
First, I learned that although all the cool phlogging tools, | |
even though developed here on SDF--germ, slerm--that rely | |
on a .cgi file won't work (thanks, slugmax). This sort of | |
CGI program apparently was once allowed to run on SDF, but | |
now is not. It says so in red letters all the way at the | |
bottom of this page: | |
http://sdf.org/?tutorials/gopher | |
Second, I learned that the shell-script-based alternative | |
tool that I was told to use from someone welcoming me to | |
gopherspace (thanks, tomatobodhi)--mkphlog-- was written | |
in ksh, which I thought to be a problem because I had switched | |
my shell to a more universal bash. But after a bit, I realized | |
mkphlog's real problem is that it is saved with Windows/MS-DOS | |
linefeeds, and you need to run 'dos2unix' on it in addition to | |
setting it executable for it to work (that is what the | |
#/bin/ksh line addresses in the script). | |
So here I am, this is, I hope, my first working phlog post. | |
Talley-ho! | |
Thanks to the following phloggers for their help: | |
slugmax | |
tomatobodhi | |
chal, the one who wrote mkphlog | |
chal's mkphlog and related downloads | |