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Blogging software change

Author: Christian Joergensen , Published on: Oct 17, 2011 12:10:59 PM , Comments , Tags: Technobabble, blohg

Having neglected my weblog a bit for the last couple of years, I felt something had to change. So I used the opportunity I got when the server hosting this site was going down and I had to move everything to a new server, to change the blogging software as well.

I'm now using blohg, which is a Mercurial backed blogging engine. That is, all content is read from a Mercurial repository and fed through a reStructedText parser. I needed to find a platform that would make me feel comfortable, and beeing a programmer, whats more natural than using my favorite editor and VCS for the purpose.

In order to facilitate the move, I needed to find a solution to blohg having a different URL structure than my old system, and I couldn't really come up with any good arguments as to why the old scheme was better than the new one, so I decided to go with the new and simple version. Now I needed a way of redirecting the readers from the old URL to the new one:

/<year>/<month>/<date>/<slug> => /post/<slug>/

To solve this problem I wrote a patch for blohg that quickly got accepted, and now blohg supports URL aliases trough an rst comment in your posts.

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