Hello fellow Soylentils, I could use some of your insights and suggestions.
I am looking for a lean, mean, and safe open source solution that implements a small blog where I can rant and rave to my heart's delight to my two followers.
To set the scene, I am not looking for something big and/or unwieldy, which basically rules out the major platforms like Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress. The software is going to be self hosted on my existing web server, which already runs Linux with Apache2, MySQL, PHP, Perl, and PostgreSQL (LAMPPP?) on a Debian platform.
I would like the following features:
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I am not familiar with the minimum resource requirements for running SoylentNews, but if it would not reasonably fit on a single RPi, maybe adding one or two more would suffice?
What suggestions do YOU have for our fellow Soylentil?
(Score: 2) by DavePolaschek on Monday July 29 2019, @12:03PM (3 children)
The UTF-8 everywhere requirement is another tough one. Haven’t seen that in any hobbyist solutions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 29 2019, @12:36PM (2 children)
Are you sure? I've not written anything in the last 15 years that didn't use utf-8 throughout.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday July 29 2019, @02:07PM (1 child)
Last time I used PHP on top of MySql (about 4-5 years ago), I remember I had some hard time to get proper UTF8 through the AMP part of LAMP and back; fortunately, an one off effort at the beginning of the project. Don't know what's the status now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 29 2019, @02:32PM
Hmmm, true that I've also fixed inherited 3rd party code without utf-8. Fix the encoding on the database tables, set apache with correct content type and use iconv functions for PHP (typically adding input validation). Moderate codebase can be fixed in a day, what project (other than a green one) has never done it?