Tripod is a blog engine that you can run on your directory, dynamically hosting all the files from it to be accessible over HTTP(S), Gopher and Gemini, and being processed from a range of formats: HTML, Gemtext, Markdown, for instance. Tripod tries to make hosting a blog as simple as possible, while putting many restrictions on you as a writer to make your content appear nice and accessible on all the supported networks. These restrictions are mostly based on the content-focused wisdom of Gemtext monks, so you most probably should use Gemtext as the default text format for Tripod.
First, clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/aartaka/tripodThen, open the directory it’d been cloned to and build Tripod (ensuring you have all the dependencies):
make allAfter that, you can run Tripod to host your files:
# Start hosting files at Gopher (port 70), Gemini (port 1965) and
# HTTP(S) (80/443) with respective certs/
./tripod -d /path/to/your/blog/directory -p 70 -m 1965 -t 80 -s 443 -c /path/to/cert/file -c /path/to/public/keyTripod uses lots of special files for page structure and content layout. Some are format-specific, some — universal. Here’s a rough list:
- Page structure:
- template.html
- An HTML template. Specific to HTML backend, as HTML is much more content-full than Gemini/Gopher and thus needs a bit more styling, fonting, etc. SHOULD have a <head> and <body> with <main>, MAY have a <header> and <footer> (if you use footer.html header.html), the rest is up to you.
- footer.XXX
- Footer specific to a certain format.
- header.XXX
- Footer specific to a certain format.
- 404.XXX
- An 404/Page-Not-Found page. Any format is fine, but only one will be used.