1 # Blosxom Plugin: writeback
2 # Author(s): Rael Dornfest <rael@oreilly.com>
7 Welcome to the Blosxom [http://www.raelity.org/apps/blosxom/] writeback plug-in.
9 This package provides you all you need to get writebacks up and running
10 on your Blosxom weblog.
12 Installation is quick and easy...
14 1. Drop the writeback plug-in file, found in this package's plugins
15 directory, into your plug-ins directory (whatever you set as
16 $plugin_dir in blosxom.cgi).
18 2. Writeback, being a well-behaved plug-in, won't do anything until you set
21 While you can use the same directory as your blosxom $datadir (WriteBacks
22 are saved as path/weblog_entry_name.wb), it's probably better to keep
25 I suggest: $writeback_dir = "$blosxom::plugin_state_dir/writeback";
27 3. Visit your site. Once $writeback_dir is set, the next time you visit
28 your site, the writeback plug-in will perform some checks, creating
29 the $writeback_dir and setting appropriate permissions if it doesn'
32 (Check your error_log for details of what's happening behind the scenes.)
34 4. Move the contents of the flavours folder included in this distribution
35 into your Blosxom data directory (whatever you set as $datadir in
38 Don't move the folder itself, only the files it contains! If you don't
39 have the the sample flavours handy, you can download them from:
41 5. Point your browser at one of your Blosxom entries, specifying the
44 http://localhost/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/path/to/a/post.writeback
46 (Replace "localhost/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi" with your weblog's URL
47 and "/path/to/a/post" with the path to a weblog post, including its
50 For detailed documentation, take a gander at the bottom of writeback
51 plug-in file itself or type: