hoaixuimay / blogd

Blogd is a Flat-File Blog with Redis inside that prioritizes simplicity and speed for busy developers

What is Blogd?

Blogd is a custom Redis version for building Flat-File Blog which focus about performance, fast development to help busy developers to build a blogging system. Blogd is developed for Golr Engineering Blogging System

Demo

https://engineering.golr.xyz

Features

• Redis with built-in simple HTTP server.
• Support Mardown language to write posts with minimum effort required.
• Auto creating pagination pages.
• Can handle thousand of requests per seconds with Redis event-loop.

Source code layout

• contents: contains html templates.
• public: contains static files (css,js,images).
• redis-3.2.5: contains the Redis custom version, written in C.

Dependencies

$ sudo apt-get install libpcre3-dev # For Debian/Ubuntu
$ sudo yum install pcre-devel # For RHEL/CentOS

Building Blogd

It is as simple as:

$ cd redis-3.2.5
$ make

Fixing build problems with dependencies or cached build options

$ cd redis-3.2.5
$ make distclean

Running Blogd

To run Redis with the default configuration just type:

$ cd redis-3.2.5
$ ./src/redis-server redis.conf

Addition configuration

Change default configuration in "redis-3.2.5/redis.conf" file

content-dir "../contents" # The path of content dir
public-dir "../public" # The path of public dir
per-page 10 # Limit posts per page
reload-content-query "secret-reload" # HTTP query param for reloading content (ex: http://blogd.local/?secret-reload)
markdown-compile 0 # Using or not mardown language in templates

Notes

• Currently Blogd only support for Linux (specially on Ubuntu & Centos)
• It should be run behind Nginx in production for security.
• Blogd rewrite the way Redis handles connections so we cannot use Redis utilities: redis-benchmark, redis-cli...