play-blog

A blog engine built upon Play Framework with Markdown experience by leveraging Pegdown and github-markdown-css. It is designed to be a simple multi-user blog backed by SQLite. See this sample blog.

Features

• Markdown
• Multi-user
• Restricted registration via admin
• Tag

Deployment on Mac/Linux

• Prerequisites

  • Java 8
  • Lightbend Activator

• Steps on Terminal

  1. Download the source and enter the root directory, which contains build.sbt.

  2. Run activator.

     $ activator
     

  3. Execute dist task to generate the executable play-blog.

     [play-blog] $ dist
     

  4. Exit activator.

     [play-blog] $ exit
     

  5. Unzip the generated zip file and enter the root directory, which contains bin/.

  6. Consider changing changeme placeholders inside page templates and also the favicon picture.

  7. Run the executable play-blog with all the configurations.

     $ bin/play-blog -Dhttp.port=80 -Dplay.evolutions.db.default.autoApply=true -Dplay.crypto.secret="[play-secret]" -Dadmin.password="[admin-password]"
     

  8. Have an icecream. 🍦