Wow, now this is a request and a half and didn't get to the end. The blog engines you mentioned can usually be found under Fantastico of a hosting provider. P-Machine is what is called CMS or Content Management System and I think there's a free one you can down load called CMSMS though can't now remember what the second MS is for. An old and now unsupported version of P-machine works extremely well and does everything you said - it was the prototype before the company went commercial and try to disuade or distract people from using this version and try and stop hosting providers offering it. It is a PHP application and does more or less everything you said and it is as easy as you require. I don't post to mine a lot though you can take a quick look here - http://www.apearl.net/his - which shows some of the basic features listed. The online file manager is one of the more useful so I can modify files on the fly if I make a hiccup on one. This is to say, I can navigate my file tree (once logged in as admin!), select a file and it will be loaded into a page in a text area where you can edit it, then go to the bottom and click save and whallah, you've just fixed a bug! I find PHP a useful language to learn and write some of this kind of thing myself. Someo f those efforts are here - http://randex.apearl.net which is random selection from a large content collection and i'm now adding tools like online calculator and dns lookup/reverse lookup amongst other things. Mailing right off a page is quite straight forward in fact, without having the risky mailto: link on the page. This is all hidden in the PHP script and this code can be locked and made invisible. The client browser only sees what the script sends to it. But that's an aside, I've given you suggestions to search for and the CMSMS might be the most readily available to find and download. They're at something like www.cmsms.org or something like that. Hth, RobH. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Baechler" <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 4:45 PM Subject: Blogging software Hi all, Am I better served with a commercial blog site like wordpress.com, blogger.com, etc or can I do what I want on my own Linux server? I'm running Debian Etch with Apache 1.3 and php4. It will eventually be upgraded to Apache 2.2 and php5. If I go with a blogging site, I don't want intrusive ads. If I go with something on the server, I want something fairly easy to set up and fairly basic but could be expanded later. I don't plan to produce a podcast right now but might eventually. What would be nice but not required would be a way that I can email blog entries to a special address and be able to login with ssh and just type out a blog entry quickly. I don't want a complicated web interface. The idea is to write my blog entry while I'm thinking about it, otherwise I forget. I don't need comments, trackbacks, etc because I would turn them off anyway and I have too much spam already. I want standards-compliant rss feeds that can be parsed by any reader. I don't care what language it's written in but I have the stock Debian Apache package so I don't think I have perl as a module. Probably php is best. If it allows email blog entries, there would need to be a way to approve them as being from me, again because of spam. The idea would be that if I must use a web interface, I want to quickly log in and be at an entry screen. I would be using Firefox under Windows and possibly Lynx. It would be nice to have something like a text editor for blogs so I can just do something like "blog this," type something, save and it rebuilds the rss feed etc. I have minimal html skills and I don't want to learn a markup language just to write something. It should be self-maintaining so I don't have to rebuild the database, web site, etc. A search engine would be nice but not necessary. I would like an "about the blog" section at the top of all entry pages. What do you suggest? I've looked at the wordpress package but it looks like it has security issues. Should I look at a commercial blog site or try a particular package on my own? ---------- Tony Baechler Baechler Productions _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list