telophase: (Mello - shiiiny)
telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2005-08-29 11:34 am

Blogging software?

Does anyone here know of blogging software that runs on a Windows server? Preferably one that won't force me to learn how to install PHP and MySQL?* Blogging is a hot topic in the library world and I've gotten aksed about its applicability here off and on for the past year, and someone FINALLY came up with an application for the library webpage that would actually work with blogging software. It's got to offer an RSS feed of some sort - I want to be able to scrape headlines off of it to post on the front page, with links to the entry itself.

So:

Windows server
I want to host all the content ourselves, not have it on another server
RSS feed
And oh yeah - while I could probably convince the library to pick up a site license for an inexpensive one, FREE is always much better. Which means, from a cursory inspection, Movable Type it out, because the free version is for personal use only.



* I'll do it if I have to. I just don't want to.


And now I'm heading to lunch, so i anyone answers in the next hour, I won't reply. XD

(Anonymous) 2005-08-29 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Forgot to add: I do have a copy of MT 2.661, the last free version. Email me if you want it. It's quite prone to comment and trackback spam, but I don't believe it has any major security holes.

[identity profile] sleary.livejournal.com 2005-08-29 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
You'd think LJ could manage to keep me logged in for the time it takes to type two comments.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2005-08-29 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
:D It's taken to posting my replies at random within a post in the past day or so. At least one I figured out was due to someone deleting the comment at the same exact time as I posted, but there's been a couple of other times I couldn't figure it out, and I'm pretty sure I hit "reply" for that particular comment and not the post.

The MT 2.661 sounds like it might be worth testing - I plan on disabling comments anyway unless the library REALLY REALLY WANTS them on there, so the spammage shouldn't be a problem.