A Pebble, A Blog, Ripples, ...
Major achievement of today: I setup my Weblog using Simon Brown's Pebble.
Pebble is billed as personal blog software. That's exactly what I'm using it for, a personal blog on this site.
The setup is an easy process. I already has a JBoss environment setup. So I just deployed the pebbel-1.1.war into JBoss's deploy directory. I have to explode the war file into a directory since I want to customize it.
The JBoss specific customizations include:
- Creating a JBoss specific deployment descriptor in WEB-INF called jboss-web.xml, setting up context-root as blog and the security-domain as java:/jaas/blog.
- Setting up a JBoss security domain called blog. This one uses the UsersRolesLoginModule.
- The admin/index.jsp has to be rewritten to work with JBoss. Instead of a Redirect, we use jsp:forward now.
The style customization is primarily me throwing away font-family and font-size styles. I don't want to control the font family or font size of my web pages. I also imposed my color style so that my weblog page looks just like my other pages.
A pebble is thrown into my weblog pound. We'll see the ripples of it reaching to all different directions...