''[JM] 29 Dec 2012'' - When reading about [Templates and subst] on this wiki, I came across this web page [http://andy.junkdrome.org] and wanted to give it a try, on my Windows XP pc.

The apache installation on this machine comes from the xampp [http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html] 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 [http://andy.junkdrome.org/cgi-bin/site.tcl] to my C:\xampp\cgi-bin folder.<<br>>
2.- Copied the site.css from [http://andy.junkdrome.org] in order to get the nice and simple style that you see there.<<br>>
3.- Created a .htaccess file on my root folder (C:\xampp\htdocs) with the following contents:
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# 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>
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4.- Modified the site.tcl script to match my "site" (these are the few lines that I modified)
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# Configuration.
set ::docroot xampp/htdocs
set ::baseurl http://localhost
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Of course, you should also modify the mail and timezone variables for your own page.<<br>>
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:
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{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"}
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Final Notes:
   * .htaccess and .desc files are gretting listed on my Windows PC, on Unix though, [[[glob] *]] skips dotfiles, at least 8.5.2's [[glob]] does. (As [AMG] explained to me)
   * I have not explored yet the templatized html feature included on the script, that is a "to be continued" kind of thing...
   * Also, you will have a missing slot on top of the page, for you site's logo/banner
   * You cannot create a .desc or .htaccess from the file explorer GUI in windows, you can however, create the files from DOS and/or wish



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