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FLog 1.1.2 — ReadMe
Table of Contents
Overview
About FLog
Features
Legal Stuff
Getting Started
Requirements
Installation
Upgrading from RCBlog
Other Stuff
Contact the Author
Useful Links
Credits
Overview
About
Some time in 2004, I decided I wanted comments in RCBlog. Now, a year (give or take a few months) and more than 10, 000 lines of code later, FLog is born.
It’s the same as it’s always been, just a simple weblog. It’ll never compete with most of the database-based scripts, like WordPress, for speed and stability, but it’ll run where they won’t (even my university’s servers, which back in 2003 didn’t support databases or even simple things like sessions or file locking), it’s cleaner, and it’s almost as powerful.
Features
FLog has too many features to list. Here are a few of the bigger ones:
Easy to install
FLog can be installed and ready to go in under five minutes, and without opening a text editor.
No database required
You don’t need MySQL or any other external database server to run FLog. Just PHP and write access.
Comments
FLog has full support for comments, complete with simple spam protection and moderation.
Plugins
Would you like to add something to FLog? Just write a plugin.
Themes
Powerful theme API gives you absolute control over the appearance of your blog.
Multiple users
Links
FLog can keep track of and organizes your links.
Categories
An easy way to organize posts and links
Legal Stuff
FLog is licensed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License, which means you can use, modify, and redistribute FLog so long as you give credit where credit is due and make sure to include a copy of the license and source code. See license.txt for more details.
Getting Started
Requirements
PHP version 4.3.0
Write Access
Installation
Upload everything.
If you would prefer your data not to be accessible to the general public, you might want to move the data directory out of the server root.
Change permissions.
The data and files directories need to have their permissions set to 777 (read/write/execute for everybody). You can do this to FLog’s base directory (the one that contains index.php and admin.php) as well to avoid writing a file by hand in the installer, but make sure to change it back (to 755, most likely) afterwards.
Install.
Point your browser to install.php (if your site is at http://www.example.com/, you would enter “http://www.example.com/install.php”) and follow the instructions it gives you.
If the installer is able to, it will create config.php, which tells FLog where to look for data and include directories. If it cannot create this file, you will be prompted to create it yourself.
Make sure to delete install.php when you’re done, otherwise somebody could use it to delete all of your data.
Upgrading from RCBlog
The process of upgrading from RCBlog to FLog is relatively painless, and in fact, you don’t technically have to do any extra work at all. All you have to do is move your RCBlog installation somewhere that doesn’t conflict with FLog’s filenames, then specify the location of RCBlog’s data directory during the FLog installation procedure.
Also, you should note that FLog uses a different URL structure than RCBlog, so some of your internal links might break.
Other Stuff
Contact the Author
FLog was written by Noah Medling. He can be reached via e-mail at noah.medling gmail com or noah noahmedling com.
Useful Links
Fluffington.com, the home of FLog and some of the author’s other projects
NoahMedling.com, the author’s personal site
SF.net/projects/fblog, FLog’s SourceForge project page
Credits
Author: Noah Medling
Translations:
Pierre Plamondon,
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Tobias Link,
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© 2005 Noah Medling
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