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-====== Sun 09/03/25 : A New Blogging platform? ====== 
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-I've recently (yesterday, Saturday 8th March) set up a blogging platform on my Virtual Private Server. 
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-I came across 
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-  - A dokuwiki [[https://wiki.millerjs.org/start]] 
-  - A separate blog by the same person [[https://millerjs.org/]] 
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-I was struck that he had //both// a __blog__ and a __wiki__ .  
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-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. 
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-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.  
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-==== Installation ==== 
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-I downloaded the current version from github [[https://github.com/xenocrat/chyrp-lite/releases/tag/v2025.01.01]] using ''wget'' on my VPS  
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-<code bash> 
-wget https://github.com/xenocrat/chyrp-lite/archive/refs/tags/v2025.01.01.tar.gz 
-</code> 
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-I un-tarred it, and then copied the whole directory to the webserver document root... 
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-Then began a few minor problems.... 
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-  * 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 
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-=== My Chyrp-Lite blog === 
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- [[https://gm4slv.org.uk/chyrp-lite/]] 
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-After adding a few posts, I think that, yes, it's a nice simple but usable blogging platform. It does enough for my needs. 
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-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? 
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-So... 
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-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. 
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-I'll leave the ''chyrp-lite'' installation for a while but it might disappear at any time. 
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-** UPDATE 15/03/25 ** 
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-I've deleted the ''chyrp-lite'' blog installation after making a copy and storing it in case I want to resurrect it. 
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-{{tag>blogging chyrp-lite}} 
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