incorporeal-cms

Software that makes simple Markdown content go.

Installation and Usage

I recommend getting a release from https://git.incorporeal.org/bss/incorporeal-cms/releases and installing the Python package in a virtualenv. Something like the following should suffice:

% cd ~/site
% virtualenv --python=python3.8 env-py3.8
% source env-py3.8/bin/activate
% pip install -U pip
% pip install ~/incorporeal_cms-1.3.0-py3-none-any.whl
% pip install -U gunicorn
% gunicorn -w 5 -t 60 -b 127.0.0.1:10000 --reload 'incorporealcms:create_app()'

This will get the CMS up and running, and listening on the specified port. The application is further configured within env-py3.8/var/incorporealcms-instance/config.py, and content is served out of env-py3.8/var/incorporealcms-instance/pages/.

Serving a Site

Put content inside env-py3.8/var/incorporealcms-instance/pages/ and go.

• Markdown files (ending in .md) are rendered via Python-Markdown if they are accessed without the suffix (i.e., post.md should be referred to as /post to get it to render as Markdown.
• Directory paths (e.g. /dir/) can be rendered with a /dir/index.md file.
• Symlinks to files are treated as redirects to the destination content.
• Request paths with file suffixes are not rendered and served directly, so images, etc., can be referenced naturally, and even the unrendered Markdown can be served as a text file via e.g. /post.md.

Care is taken to not serve content above the pages/ dir, even via symlink.

Configuration

I've tried to keep the software agnostic to my personal domains, logos, etc. There are some settings you are probably interested in tweaking, by specifying new values in incorporealcms-instance/config.py:

• TITLE_SUFFIX is appended to the title of every page, separated from other title content by a dash.
• CONTACT_EMAIL is referred to in error templates.
• FAVICON supplies the image used in browser tabs and that kind of thing.

If I missed anything, please let me know.

Author and Licensing

Written by and copyright Brian S. Stephan (bss@incorporeal.org).

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.