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9.1.1 Other tools needed to the Blosxom style

You will need to have pyblosxom.cgi or blosxom.cgi installed on a machine that you have upload access to.

The following additional components are required in order to make the date of blog entries display as something sensible.

  1. A script to gather date directives from the entire blog tree into a single file. The file must associate a blog entry with a date.
  2. A plugin for (py)blosxom that reads this file.

These 2 things are provided for pyblosxom.cgi in the contrib/pyblosxom subdirectory. getstamps.py provides the former service, while hardcodedates.py provides the latter service. Eventually it is hoped that a blosxom.cgi plugin and script will be found/written.

Here is a sample listing from my timestamps file, which maps each file to a date. This can really be in any format, as long as your date-gathering script and your plugin can both understand it.

     2005-04-01-14-16 personal/paper_cranes
     2005-03-21 personal/spring_break_over
     2004-10-24 personal/finished_free_culture