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Apache Roller 4.0 - Beginner's Guide

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Apache Roller 4.0 - Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Apache Roller enables you to build a fully-featured, multi-user blog server apt for all kinds of blogging sites. It is an ideal tool to create your own blogging network with unlimited users and blogs, forums, photo galleries, and more! While it is exciting to have a list of interesting features it can offer you, it might be a little difficult to get started with it by your self. This book will teach you how to get started with Apache Roller and make the most of all its features using step-by-step, detailed instructions. You will learn how to establish your internet presence with an Apache Roller blog and use the latest web tools to enhance your posts and attract visitors. You will also learn how to promote your blog on popular social bookmarking services and customize it to suit your need. This hands-on and practical book introduces you to Apache Roller. Starting off with the configuration and installation of your own blog, you'll then quickly learn how to add interesting content to your blog with the help of plenty of examples. You'll also learn how to change your blog's visual appearance with the help of Roller themes and templates and how to create a community of blogs for you and your colleagues or friends in your Apache Roller blog server. The book also looks at ways you can manage your community, and keep your site safe and secure, ensuring that it is a spam-free, enjoyable community for your users.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Apache Roller 4.0
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Pop Quiz Answers
Index

Time for action — getting additional themes for your weblog


The https://roller.dev.java.net/ website has a lot of additional themes you can download for your weblog. Let's find out how to do that:

  1. Open your web browser and type https://roller.dev.java.net/files/ documents/190/73198/opt-themes-roller-4.0.tar.gz in the Address bar to download the optional themes file. Your web browser will ask if you want to open or save this file. If you're using Windows, click on the Save button; if you're using Linux, select the Save File option, and click on the OK button to start downloading the file.

  2. Once the file has downloaded, extract it to see all the additional Roller themes, each one inside its own subdirectory:

  3. Now, select all these directories and copy them to the themes directory, inside Roller's main directory. In Ubuntu Linux, open a terminal window, go to the opt-themes-roller-4.0 directory you've just extracted, and type sudo cp -R * /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/roller/themes to copy all the...