Malibo

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The current version is 0.06 published on 2008-10-12 (changelog)
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Description

This software is used to create a blog on a website in the internet.
The main goal is not to have the most functionality but to be a small, secure and easy to use system.

Besides creating and editing blog entries, files can be uploaded and directly linked to.
There is also a comment functions to allow visitor to write comments for each article.

Malibo is based on PHP and designed to run on Apache webservers.

License

Malibo is licensed under the GPL v3 (or later).

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/

Malibo includes these components:

WYMEditor
Copyright (C) 2007 H.O.net - http://www.honet.be/
WYMeditor is dual licensed under the Open Source MIT and GPL licenses.
jQuery
Copyright (c) 2007 John Resig, http://jquery.com/
jQuery is dual licensed under the Open Source MIT and GPL licenses.

System Requirements

Apache webserver 1.3 (or newer).
Note: malibo relies on the webserver to do the user authentication. Other webservers should also work, if HTTP basic authentication is supported (eg. via .htaccess file)
PHP 5.1 (or newer)
MySQL 5.0 (or newer)
(PostgreSQL may also work but is completely untested yet)

Malibo was tested with:

Apache 2.2, PHP 5.2.5, MySQL 5.0
Apache 1.3, PHP 5.2.6, MySQL 5.0
Mozilla Firefox 2.0, Internet Explorer 7

Installation

At present there is no installation tool.
Therefore this is yet a manual task and requires good knowledge of the target system.
Basic steps:

Extract contents of malibo.tar.gz in a directory on the web server
Note: It is a good idea to password-protect this directory until the installation is complete
Setup database tables using the SQL statements in the subdirectory "installation"
Note: If other table names will be used, the SQL statements must be adjusted
Move the database configuration file "template/mlb_config.inc.php" to a secure location (outside the web-accessible area)
Adjust index.php und edit/index.php to the new location of the database configuration file
Insert database access data into database configuration file
Password-protect the "edit" subdirectory (eg. with HTTP basic authentication via .htaccess)
Note: Everybody who should write/edit the web contents, must have access to the "edit" subdirectory with a username and password. Additionally each username must be present in the database table mlb_users with "is_editor" or "is_admin" enabled.
Set write permissions for everyone on the "user" subdirectory (but only there!), to allow file uploads (chmod 777)
Insert the configuration of your web project (ie. title, author, ...) into the database table mlb_config

Bug reports, comments, ...

Please let me know, if you encounter problems with textconv.
Just send a mail to: www@michel-messerschmidt.de

created by Michel Messerschmidt

last modified 2008-10-13 00:31

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