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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)
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Apache Roller 4.0
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Apache Roller 4.0
Credits
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Credits
Foreword
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Foreword
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
Preface
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Preface
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An Introduction to Weblogs
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An Introduction to Weblogs
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Basic concepts about weblogs
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What can you do with a weblog?
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Time for action — a little visit to Technorati
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Time for action — leaving comments on other people's weblogs
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Time for action — Microsoft employee blogs
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Who's using Apache Roller
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Weblogs versus Content Management Systems
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Blogs and newsfeeds - the world is your audience
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Time for action — subscribing to a newsfeed
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Time for action — using Bloglines
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Summary
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Installing Roller on Windows
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Installing Roller on Windows
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Checking your environment
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Installing Apache, Java, Tomcat, and MySQL
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Time for action — installing the Apache web server
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Time for action - installing a JDK
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Time for action installing Tomcat
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Time for action — installing MySQL
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Downloading and installing Apache Roller
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Files required for Apache Roller
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Time for action downloading the JavaMail API
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Time for action — downloading the JAF API
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Time for action — installing MySQL connector/J 5.1
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Deploying Roller files to Tomcat
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Time for action — downloading and deploying Roller
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Creating the Roller database
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Time for action — creating a MySQL database for Roller
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Roller properties and context files
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Time for action — creating roller-custom.properties
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Time for action — creating Context.xml
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Time for action — changing key values in security.xml
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Testing your Roller installation
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Time for action — testing Roller
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The mod_jk connector for Apache and Tomcat
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Time for action — installing the mod_jk connector
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Summary
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Installing Roller on Linux
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Installing Roller on Linux
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Checking your environment
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Installing Apache, Java, Tomcat, and MySQL
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Time for action — installing the Apache web server
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Time for action — installing a JDK
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Time for action — installing Tomcat
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Time for action — installing MySQL
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Downloading and installing Apache Roller
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Files required for Apache Roller
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Time for action — downloading the JavaMail API
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Time for action - downloading the JAF API
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Time for action — downloading and installing MySQL connector/J 5.1
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Deploying Roller files to Tomcat
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Time for action — downloading and deploying Roller
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Creating the Roller database
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Time for action — creating a MySQL database for Roller
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Roller properties and context files
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Time for action — creating roller-custom.properties
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Time for action — creating Context.xml
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Time for action — changing key values in security.xml
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Testing your Roller installation
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Time for action — testing Roller
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The mod_jk connector for Apache and Tomcat
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Time for action — installing the mod_jk connector
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Summary
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How to Start Working with Roller
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How to Start Working with Roller
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Your first steps with Roller
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Time for action — creating your first user and weblog
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Time for action — basic server settings
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Time for action — creating/editing entries
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Time for action — define a category for your blog
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Enhancing your weblog
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Time for action — basic weblog settings
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Time for action — managing bookmarks in Roller
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Time for action — using Roller's Rich Text Editor
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Time for action — using the Summary field
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Spicing Up Your Blog
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Spicing Up Your Blog
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Before the action begins
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Uploading files to your weblog
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Time for action — uploading images into Roller
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Changing file upload size limit
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Time for action — changing Roller's file upload settings
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Time for action — modifying the struts.multipart.maxSize property
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Time for action - uploading and inserting videos on your posts
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Time for action — uploading and inserting sound files in your posts
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Google Maps, YouTube, and SlideShare
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Time for action — using Google Maps
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Time for action — including a YouTube video
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Time for action - including a SlideShare presentation
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Summary
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Roller Themes and Blog Promotion
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Roller Themes and Blog Promotion
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Before the action begins
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Choosing a weblog theme
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Time for action — choosing a Roller theme
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Time for action — differences between the Brushed Metal and Basic themes
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Downloading and installing additional themes
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Time for action — getting additional themes for your weblog
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Editing themes
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Time for action - editing a custom theme
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Time for action — adding a Twitter box
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Time for action — open a No-IP.com account
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Time for action — forwarding port 80
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Time for action — adding a Digg It button
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Working with Templates
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Working with Templates
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Your first template
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Time for action — creating your first template
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Time for action — showing your weblog's blogroll and most recent entries
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Time for action — properties of the $config model object
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Time for action — properties and methods of the $model model object
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Time for action — properties and methods of the $url and $utils objects
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Creating a Roller theme from scratch
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Time for action — creating a directory for your theme
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Time for action — editing the stylesheet override file
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Time for action - editing the weblog template
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Summary
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Comments and Trackbacks
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Comments and Trackbacks
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Managing comments
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Time for action — enabling comments
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Time for action — leaving comments in your weblog
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Time for action — deleting a comment in your weblog
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Moderating comments
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Time for action — enabling moderation in your weblog
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Time for action — how to approve and disapprove comments
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Avoiding spam in your weblog
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Time for action — marking comments as spam
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Time for action — Roller's comment validators
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Trackbacks
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Time for action — enabling e-mail comment notification in Roller
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Time for action — sending trackbacks
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Summary
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Pop Quiz Answers
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Pop Quiz Answers
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Index
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Index

Weblogs versus Content Management Systems

When I started looking for open source software to create a blog, there were a lot of choices. I focused on several applications that were considered Content Management Systems (or CMS). At first glance, I thought it was just another name for blog applications, but when I downloaded and installed Joomla!®, it was clear that a CMS is more than a blog. In fact, if you want to use a CMS as a blog, it's very likely you'll need to download additional modules, because a CMS can do a lot of things besides blogging. For example, you can have an integrated forum, the news at the front page does not necessarily have a chronological order, some CMS systems have a chat and a photo gallery, and a lot of other things that were very confusing for me. All I wanted was, a blog where I could start writing stuff about computers, programming languages, and tutorials to share with other bloggers, and who knows, maybe one day start writing the next fiction bestseller!

A blog is not a CMS

In most cases, a blog is considered a CMS because it's used to manage content in a website. However, in my humble opinion, a blog definitely is not a CMS. With a CMS, you can do a lot more than post messages in a chronological order and receive comments. That beats one of the main purposes of a blog—to express yourself in a friendly environment, like a personal diary. Sure, you can use a CMS as a blog, but you'll have to learn how to manage its user interface and maybe add a few extra modules or plugins. With a weblog server like Apache Roller, you're ready to go! In later chapters, we'll talk about templates and how to modify the appearance of your blog's pages by adding video, audio, and images. You'll see how easy it is to manage your Apache Roller server.

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