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-====== Sun 09/03/25 : A New Blogging platform? ======
-I've recently (yesterday, Saturday 8th March) set up a blogging platform on my Virtual Private Server.
-==  More ==
-I came across
-  - A dokuwiki [[https://wiki.millerjs.org/start]]
-  - A separate blog by the same person [[https://millerjs.org/]]
-I was struck that he had //both// a __blog__ and a __wiki__ .
-I've thought of doing the same, rather than using **dokuwiki** as the method of writing //blog// posts. I've always avoided it, as I think something like ''wordpress'' would be too large and cumbersome to install and to learn, for my miniscule blogging efforts.
-After some searching I worked out that the blog was running on ''chyrp-lite'' [[https://chyrplite.net/]] and that it appeared to be straightforward to install on a server that already had working Apache and PHP. It can be configured to use a simple ''sqlite3'' database file if you don't want to install and configure a full-blown ''MySQL'' database server.
-==== Installation ====
-I downloaded the current version from github [[https://github.com/xenocrat/chyrp-lite/releases/tag/v2025.01.01]] using ''wget'' on my VPS
-<code bash>
-wget https://github.com/xenocrat/chyrp-lite/archive/refs/tags/v2025.01.01.tar.gz
-</code>
-I un-tarred it, and then copied the whole directory to the webserver document root...
-Then began a few minor problems....
-  * I had to enable ''PDO'' in the PHP.ini file
-  * I had to install ''php-sqlite3''
-  * I had to install ''php-mbstring''
-  * I had to ''chown'' various directories in the ''chyrp'' directory ''chown -R www-data:www-data chyrp-lite''
-  * I had to make a separate directory ''chyrp-lite-data'' in ''/var/www'' (i.e. outside the webserver document root which is ''/var/www/html/'') to hold the sqlite database and ''chown -R www-data:www-data chyrp-lite-data'' too.
-  * Then the ''install.php'' process eventually completed correctly and I have a working ''chyrp-lite'' blog
-=== My Chyrp-Lite blog ===
- [[https://gm4slv.org.uk/chyrp-lite/]]
-After adding a few posts, I think that, yes, it's a nice simple but usable blogging platform. It does enough for my needs.
-But... it's a different //markup// language to the one used in DokuWiki - and I've become very comfortable here that I might not want to have to learn a different markup just for blogging. This split between ''wiki'' and ''blog'' also spreads content and information between 2 different places - is it better to keep it all in one place?
-So...
-I've decided to stick to ''dokuwiki'' and its [[https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:blog| Blog Plugin ]] for blogging - I don't do much, and many things I might want to write about would end up here in **dokuwiki** anyway.
-I'll leave the ''chyrp-lite'' installation for a while but it might disappear at any time.
-{{tag>blogging chyrp-lite}}