JM 29 Dec 2012 - When reading about Templates and subst on this wiki, I came across this web page [L1 ] and wanted to give it a try, on my Windows XP pc.
The apache installation on this machine comes from the xampp bundle and it was installed under: C:\xampp
These are the steps I have taken to setup this script and learn during that process (thanks Andy):
1.- Copied the tcl script [L2 ] to my C:\xampp\cgi-bin folder.
2.- Copied the site.css from [L3 ] in order to get the nice and simple style that you see there.
3.- Created a .htaccess file on my root folder (C:\xampp\htdocs) with the following contents:
# Enable URL rewriting.
RewriteEngine on
# Just let Apache send/process the file if it already exists. This rule also
# prevents an infinite rewrite loop, since the rewrite maps to an existing file.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
# Generate all directory listings, phony files, etc. with a script.
RewriteRule ^ /cgi-bin/site.tcl [L]
# Hide dotfiles.
<Files ~ "^\.">
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Files>4.- Modified the site.tcl script to match my "site" (these are the few lines that I modified)
# Configuration. set ::docroot xampp/htdocs set ::baseurl http://localhost
Of course, you should also modify the mail and timezone variables for your own page.
5.- Finally, I just made a file called .desc (which are simply lists of three-element lists consisting of a title, a [clock seconds] time, and templatized HTML) with some dummy posts to see how it works. Here the contents of such file:
{title1 1356737274 "some content"}
{title2 1356737274 {some <a href="http://andy.junkdrome.org/">Andy</a> more content}}
{title3 1356737274 "some more content"}
{title4 1356737274 "and more content"}
{title5 1356737274 "some content"}
{title6 1356737274 "some content"}
{title7 1356737274 "some content"}
{title8 1356737274 "some content"}
{title9 1356737274 "some content"}
{titleA 1356737274 "some content"}
{titleB 1356737274 "some content"}
{titleC 1356737274 "some content"}Final Notes: