I’m Winning, I Think …

I’ve got the blog basically where I want it. I’d like to have comments lit up, but that’ll have to wait for a while. The layout is basically correct and everything validates so that’s cool. Next up is driving some hits I think…

But, I’ve got a couple of articles to write for Codebase first. And I really should be drumming up some more real work too.

The URL mambo

According to the Blosxom FAQ you should be able to hide the “blosxom.cgi” portion of the url like this:

You may also be able to hide CGIs by renaming them to index.cgi, so that you can address your weblog simply by the subdirectory in which it lives, /weblog or the like. This works when the Web server has been configured to consider index.cgi a DirectoryIndex just like index.html. If this does work for you, be sure also to change $url in your newly renamed index.cgi (what used to beblosxom.cgi, setting it to the URL of your subdirectory. E.g.:

# What’s my preferred base URL for this blog (leave blank for automatic)?
my $url = “http://www.example/weblog”;

This worked fine for displaying the page, but none of the permanent links would work. I had to change the URL string to $url =”david.codebase.ca/index.cgi”. Now it works fine