My blog about Go, written in Go. Located at www.gopherblog.org
The system assumes that you have successfully installed the following requirements:
- A running version of MySQL
- The Go language installed, with correct environment variables (GOPATH, GOROOT, etc)
To set up the database you need to run the following command:
chmod +x install.sh; ./install.sh
Follow the on-screen instructions and enter your database host and credentials. The second section will ask you to create the Admin credentials and Display Name which you will use to create posts on the blog. The Display Name that you enter here will be displayed on your posts' pages.
First we must compile the main package and all its dependencies into a binary. To do this we run:
go install
This should create the binary called gopherblog in your $GOPATH/bin folder. On my machine, for example, I naively run the blog as:
gopherblog -db="root:root@tcp(localhost:3306)/gopherblog"
The following command-line flags are provided:
| Flag | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| -db= | root:root@tcp(localhost:3306)/gopherblog | Database connection string. |
| -host= | localhost | Hostname that the server runs on |
| -port= | 8080 | Port to listen on for HTTP connections |
| nocache | Setting this flag will recompile the HTML templates on every request |
| Route | Description |
|---|---|
| / | Home page of the blog, displays a list of posts |
| /post/:slug | Displays a post with the given slug |
| /login | Displays login page |
| /manage | Manage your posts (requires authentication) |
| /edit/:id | Edit a post with the given ID |