aspen is a personal web content management system based on webpy, see example: http://lw1990.name

Aspen is a kind of pulpwood commonly used for paper making. Literally, aspen means a pen, symbolically aspen is paper.

卢威 (LU WEI)

aspen contains two major parts. One is for reader, aspen.py. The other is for the system owner, admin.py. Posts are writen in Markdown with simple meta data. When you add your post, you will find it is easy to follow.

For owner:

• change your personal information
• administrate posts: new, edit, delete
• upload static files

For reader:

• view post entries list: whole publised list, by tag, by category
• view post

First, you need python be installed(2.7.x)

• webpy
• hoedown
• pygments

• Just Try:

  Go to the dirtory of aspen, run python aspen.py, then visit http://0.0.0.0:8080

• Deploy(Apache with mod_wsgi on Ubuntu)

1. Change /etc/apache2/sites-available/default.conf (or as you like another site configure)

       <VirtualHost _default_ *:80> 
       ServerAdmin admin@project.com 
       DocumentRoot /var/www/aspen/static/ 
       ErrorLog /var/www/aspen/logs/error.log 
       CustomLog /var/www/aspen/logs/access.log combined  
       WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/aspen/aspen.py 
       Alias /static /var/www/aspen/static 
       AddType text/html .py 
       WSGIDaemonProcess www-data threads=15 
       WSGIProcessGroup www-data  
       <Directory /var/www/aspen/> 
       Order deny,allow 
       Allow from all Options +FollowSymLinks 
       Options -Indexes 
       </Directory>  
       </VirtualHost>
   

2. Change owner of files requiring write access to apache‘s www-data

sudo chown -R www-data *files or Dir requiring write access* 3. Try to run, restart apache2, and see http://example.com

sudoservice apache2 restart 4. administrate You can administrate your site at http://example.com/admin/, the initial user name is admin, and password is admin

See MIT License

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