Sat, 18 Mar 2006
Using PyBlosxom
Searching for an extendable but simple weblog system, I finally found PyBlosxom.
This one is really simple and easy to extend. As a prove of concept I wrote the mod_python hander to integrate the blog in Apache 2. There is an old code snippled for this purpose somewhere out there. But this one won't work with recend software.
#!/usr/bin/python
"""
Pyblosxom mod_python handler
Based on ideas from
* Wari Wahab <wari at wari.per.sg>
http://roughingit.subtlehints.net/pyblosxom/2003/Jun/02/
* pyblosxom.cgi 1.3.2
"""
from mod_python import apache
import sys
sys.path.append('/etc/pyblosxom')
from config import py as cfg
if cfg.has_key("codebase"):
sys.path.insert(0, cfg["codebase"])
from Pyblosxom.pyblosxom import PyBlosxom
__author__ = 'Andreas Stricker <rapidmax@gmx.net>'
__version__ = "1.3.2"
__copyright__ = "Copyright (c) 2006 Andreas Stricker"
__license__ = "Python"
def handler(req):
req.content_type = 'text/html'
req.add_common_vars()
env = {}
for k, v in req.subprocess_env.items():
env[k] = v
env['wsgi.input'] = req
env['wsgi.errors'] = sys.stderr
# setup url_scheme for static rendering
if cfg.has_key('base_url'):
if cfg['base_url'].find('://') > 0:
env['wsgi.url_scheme'] = cfg['base_url'][:cfg['base_url'].find("://")]
else:
env['wsgi.url_scheme'] = "http"
if cfg['base_url'].startswith('/'):
cfg['base_url'] = "http://" + req.hostname + cfg['base_url']
else:
env['wsgi.url_scheme'] = "http"
cfg['base_url'] = "/blog/blog.py"
p = PyBlosxom(cfg, env)
p.run()
response = p.getResponse()
# detect if we have to return "404 Not found" status
# This case is handled as suggested in mod_python documenation
if response.status.startswith('404'):
req.status = apache.HTTP_NOT_FOUND
# set headers
for k, v in response.headers.items():
if k.lower() == 'content-type':
req.content_type = v
req.headers_out[k] = v
response.sendBody(req)
return apache.OK
To make it work, you must register this script as handler for a specific directory:
DirectoryIndex blog.py AddHandler mod_python .py PythonHandler blog #PythonDebug On
posted at: 14:58 | path: /python | permanent link to this entry
