essayist/README.md
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Essayist

A blogging app for the tent.io protocol

Quick start:

  1. Pre-requisites: Java 1.6+ and Maven
  2. Currently, Essayist uses some dependencies available only on Github: TentClient, Migrate4J and tent-text-java. Clone and mvn install each of these.
  3. git clone git://github.com/mwanji/essayist.git
  4. Deploy to your favourite servlet container. For example: mvn jetty:run
  5. http://localhost:8080
  6. Log in with your Tent address, for example https://my_name.tent.is

Configuration

  1. Put a file called essayist.properties in the src/main/resources folder. essayist-example.properties shows what can be configured. essayist-defaults.properties provides a number of defaults.
  2. If using your own database, create an empty database corresponding to the value of db.url