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You're reading from Apache Roller 4.0 - Beginner's Guide A comprehensive, step-by-step guide on how to set up, customize, and market your blog using Apache Roller

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2009

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781847199508

Length 388 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Apache Roller

Concepts

CMS

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Apache Roller 4.0

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

About the Reviewers

1. Preface

1. An Introduction to Weblogs FREE CHAPTER

Basic concepts about weblogs
What can you do with a weblog?
Time for action — a little visit to Technorati
Time for action — leaving comments on other people's weblogs
Time for action — Microsoft employee blogs
Who's using Apache Roller
Weblogs versus Content Management Systems
Blogs and newsfeeds - the world is your audience
Time for action — subscribing to a newsfeed
Time for action — using Bloglines
Summary

2. Installing Roller on Windows

Checking your environment
Installing Apache, Java, Tomcat, and MySQL
Time for action — installing the Apache web server
Time for action - installing a JDK
Time for action installing Tomcat
Time for action — installing MySQL
Downloading and installing Apache Roller
Files required for Apache Roller
Time for action downloading the JavaMail API
Time for action — downloading the JAF API
Time for action — installing MySQL connector/J 5.1
Deploying Roller files to Tomcat
Time for action — downloading and deploying Roller
Creating the Roller database
Time for action — creating a MySQL database for Roller
Roller properties and context files
Time for action — creating roller-custom.properties
Time for action — creating Context.xml
Time for action — changing key values in security.xml
Testing your Roller installation
Time for action — testing Roller
The mod_jk connector for Apache and Tomcat
Time for action — installing the mod_jk connector
Summary

3. Installing Roller on Linux

Checking your environment
Installing Apache, Java, Tomcat, and MySQL
Time for action — installing the Apache web server
Time for action — installing a JDK
Time for action — installing Tomcat
Time for action — installing MySQL
Downloading and installing Apache Roller
Files required for Apache Roller
Time for action — downloading the JavaMail API
Time for action - downloading the JAF API
Time for action — downloading and installing MySQL connector/J 5.1
Deploying Roller files to Tomcat
Time for action — downloading and deploying Roller
Creating the Roller database
Time for action — creating a MySQL database for Roller
Roller properties and context files
Time for action — creating roller-custom.properties
Time for action — creating Context.xml
Time for action — changing key values in security.xml
Testing your Roller installation
Time for action — testing Roller
The mod_jk connector for Apache and Tomcat
Time for action — installing the mod_jk connector
Summary

4. How to Start Working with Roller

Your first steps with Roller
Time for action — creating your first user and weblog
Time for action — basic server settings
Time for action — creating/editing entries
Time for action — define a category for your blog
Enhancing your weblog
Time for action — basic weblog settings
Time for action — managing bookmarks in Roller
Time for action — using Roller's Rich Text Editor
Time for action — using the Summary field
Summary

5. Spicing Up Your Blog

Before the action begins
Uploading files to your weblog
Time for action — uploading images into Roller
Changing file upload size limit
Time for action — changing Roller's file upload settings
Time for action — modifying the struts.multipart.maxSize property
Time for action - uploading and inserting videos on your posts
Time for action — uploading and inserting sound files in your posts
Google Maps, YouTube, and SlideShare
Time for action — using Google Maps
Time for action — including a YouTube video
Time for action - including a SlideShare presentation
Summary

6. Roller Themes and Blog Promotion

Before the action begins
Choosing a weblog theme
Time for action — choosing a Roller theme
Time for action — differences between the Brushed Metal and Basic themes
Downloading and installing additional themes
Time for action — getting additional themes for your weblog
Editing themes
Time for action - editing a custom theme
Time for action — adding a Twitter box
Time for action — open a No-IP.com account
Time for action — forwarding port 80
Time for action — adding a Digg It button
Summary

7. Working with Templates

Your first template
Time for action — creating your first template
Time for action — showing your weblog's blogroll and most recent entries
Time for action — properties of the $config model object
Time for action — properties and methods of the $model model object
Time for action — properties and methods of the $url and $utils objects
Creating a Roller theme from scratch
Time for action — creating a directory for your theme
Time for action — editing the stylesheet override file
Time for action - editing the weblog template
Summary

8. Comments and Trackbacks

Managing comments
Time for action — enabling comments
Time for action — leaving comments in your weblog
Time for action — deleting a comment in your weblog
Moderating comments
Time for action — enabling moderation in your weblog
Time for action — how to approve and disapprove comments
Avoiding spam in your weblog
Time for action — marking comments as spam
Time for action — Roller's comment validators
Trackbacks
Time for action — enabling e-mail comment notification in Roller
Time for action — sending trackbacks
Summary

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