GSL: Statique Littérateur

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GSL is a multiple blogs/websites generator based on their domain, written in bash, for minimal dependancies. The websites are nearly all static, except for some includes pages, like listing posts, that nginx can easily get, in your webserver.

Dependancies

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• bash
• coreutils
• curl (to check Posts links response)

GSL: Installation

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In your System /

git clone URL .

GSL does NOT use any sudo. To avoid errors, you must give permissions to USER with chown -R to folders.

--Prefix for DOMAIN configuration (set according to user choice):

• HOME: ~/.config/gsl
• GLOBAL: /var/lib/gsl
• Folder: --Prefix/domains/ (created with $ gsl new)

DOMAIN Datas from Prefix:

• Folder: --Prefix/DOMAIN/ (Created by GSL)
• • Files: DOMAIN.conf, authors.db (Created by GSL)
• • Folder: --Prefix/DOMAIN/templates/ (css, logos...) (Created by GSL)

Destination Folder: /etc/gsl/

• File: gsl.conf

Destination Folder: /var/lib/gsl/

• Folder: db (Created by GSL)
• Folder: helps
• Folder: scripts
• File: README.md

Destination Folder: /var/log/gsl

• File: gsl.log (Created and managed by GSL $ gsl log clean...)

Destination Folder: /usr/local/bin

• File: gsl

Destination Folder: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/gsl

• File: gsl

How to configure a DOMAIN folder, and create a Post

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When Adding a DOMAIN (example.com), GSL will ask you some questions. Datas will be used to create a DOMAIN.conf file. GSL will also ask you to set a folder where you will put your Posts, but you can create or add ones too.

Set a DOMAIN

• add a DOMAIN name (if not alrady done)

gsl new

Follow instructions when adding DOMAIN or see them again with

gsl help new
gsl help install

Set a DOMAIN folder for Posts (if not already done by GSL or You)

• Add/Create or go into your folder of choice
• Save into that folder a blank file named gsl.DOMAIN (gsl.example.org) so that GSL, knows this folder is for this DOMAIN website.

Create a new Post

The engine is written from scratch and looks like a mix of markdown and ReStructuredText. It's very easy to learn and use.

• Write a post in a file, using some "metas" that GSL will catch.
• Save your file with .gsl extension
• Start checking it, using:

gsl check

Convert one or all Posts

If your Post has no error, you will have to deploy html files and folders. You could install nginx, or lightweight darkhttpd webserver on your PC to preview the website. You can also just open index.html in your server folder, but you won't be able to see some extra includes page, like Posts listing.

To convert your Posts in HTML, use

gsl make

You can select a specific post, with autocompletion to check and make only that specified one.

Create a Templates

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You will have to create some CSS (styles.css) in your /DOMAIN/templates/

• HOME: ~/.config/gsl/domains/DOMAIN/templates/
• GLOBAL: /var/lib/gsl/domains/DOMAIN/templates/

How to Write a Post

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Post has 2 sections : Before and After #1. #1 is the FIRST Title of your post. #(1-6) are HTML titles.

• Before #1 is used to set METAs HEADERS to configure your Post.
• From #1 is the CONTENT of your Post

NEEDED HEADERS (before #1)

Register METAs for HTML Page content

title: POST TITLE
slug: POST-TITLE (if space in slug GSL will convert them)
info: DESCRIPTION (about the Post)
author: NAME (must be registred ($ gsl author add)
date: YYYY-MM-DD
tags: TAG1,OTHER TAG2,TAG3 (comma separated)

Admin Header

Admin can define specific type of content. If no type defined, GSL will add at first line the default value: "type: post".

TYPE:

• post < classic content
• page < used to define main index, 404, about...

type: TYPE

GSL will create html file according to slug. Do not add .html to slug.

• post < /slug/index.html
• page < /slug.html

Optional HEADERS (before #1)

Register METAs for CONTENT. " : " field separator

abbr: SHORT : LONG
file: NAME : FILENAME : Alt Text
link: NAME : URL : Alt Text
code: NBR : FILENAME : Alt Text
image: NBR : FILENAME : ALT-TEXT

CONTENT Post:

In Content Post, markers (i.e. __My Great file) must be on the SAME line. For ABBRs, just write SHORT in your content

# Paragraphs
At begining of new line, open with ( and close with )
Set till 3 different classes with ( 1 ( 2 ( 3
( 2
This is a paragraph with class 2
)

# Register in Header. link: My Great Link : URL : Alt text
_My Great Link
_My Great Link+ # Open in new tab

# Register in Header. file: My Great file : FILENAME : ALT-TEXT
__My Great file

# Register in Header. image: 1 : FILENAME : ALT-TEXT
_image:1:[OPT l|r|c (left, right, center, alignment)]
_image:1:r

# Block-Code File: Register in Header. code: 1 : FILENAME : Alt Text
_code:1

# Write in STRONG
**this strong content**
this un**believe**able content
this border**line** content

# BOLD
*this bold content*
...

# Write in ITALIC
/this em text/

# Inline-code (¤ = alt-gr + $ on FR keyboard)
¤push()¤

# Simple Blockquote
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(
A simple great quote
)
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# Advanced Blockquote
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_cite : Richard Matthew Stallman
_link : https://stallman.org/
_lang : en
(
In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects
users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't. I
could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code.
But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of
building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the
world a worse place
)
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# For advanced blockquotes, you can also add, if known:
_year: 2021
_book: Esperanza 64