Kira's Simple Blog Code
from CGI Programming 201 (http://www.cgi101.com/advanced)
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Legal Stuff

Written and copyright 2002 by
Jacqueline D. Hamilton (kira@cgi101.com)

You may use this code on your own website, however
you may not publish or sell any copy or derivative work
without permission of the author.

If you didn't download this code from cgi101.com, please send 
mail to kira@cgi101.com with the URL of the site you downloaded
it from.

The author makes no expressed or implied warranty of
any kind, and assumes no responsibility for errors or
omissions. No liability is assumed for incidental or 
consequential damages in connection with or arising from
the use of this software.

This code is unsupported. If you have problems, buy the book,
and/or visit our discussion board at http://www.cgi101.com/discuss/
for help.
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Requirements

You will need Perl, Unix, MySQL, and the Perl modules
DBI.pm, CGI.pm, and HTML::TagFilter (all downloadable from
http://search.cpan.org).

If you aren't sure if these are already installed on your
system, try doing 'perldoc modulename' to find out
(e.g. 'perldoc HTML::TagFilter').

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Installing the blog

1. Be sure to chmod 755 all of the cgi programs. 

2. Create a new MySQL database for your blog:
 
   mysqladmin -p create blogname

3. Edit the MySQL privileges (or have your sysadmin do this)
   to create a new blog user:

   mysql -p mysql
   insert into user(Host, User, Password) values ("localhost",
     "bloguser", password("blogpassword");
   insert into db values("localhost", "blogname", "bloguser",
     "Y","Y","Y","Y","Y","Y","Y","Y","Y","Y");
   flush privileges;
   quit

4. Create the MySQL tables by loading the enclosed sql file:

   mysql -u bloguser -p blogname < blogdbs.sql

5. Edit the configuration stuff below.

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Customizing the blog code for your own site:

1. Edit MyBoard.pm and change the values for the configurable stuff -
database name, db username and password, URL for your blog, and the
name ($btitle) of your blog. If you want to change the look of your
blog (page colors, background etc), you can also modify the do_header
and do_footer subroutines.

2. cd to the admin directory. Edit .htaccess and change the path of
AuthUserFile from /home/www/advanced/forums/admin/.htpasswd  to whatever
your actual admin path is.

3. create a .htpasswd file in the admin directory:

    htpasswd -c .htpasswd yourusername


Now your blog should be ready to go. Visit the admin area with your
web browser to add a new blog entry.

See http://www.cgi101.com/advanced/blog.html for tweaks and additions
for improving your blog.