LightBlog

LightBlog is a fast and light weight blog written in C++. This blog system is portable by design and is cross-platform... Successfully compiled on macOS Sierra 10.12.6, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.04 ARM (aarch64), and Windows 10.

Minimum Requirements

OS: Windows, Linux based distros., and macOS
Processor: 1.0 GHZ single-core or better
Memory: 1 MB - 50 MB
Storage: 10 MB - 100 MB available space

Media

Demo

http://blog.vldr.org/

Dependencies

• Boost C++ libraries
• OpenSSL libraries (if you wish to use HTTPS, you will need to implement it yourself).

Binaries

Requirements

• Make sure you have latest executable downloaded.
• Make sure libboost is installed. (excluding Windows)

Windows

Setup:

1. Download and install Visual C++ Redist. 2017
2. Download lightblog.exe.
3. Download sql.db.
4. Run lightblog.exe THREADS(default 1) PORT(default 8080) DBFILENAME(default sql.db)

macOS Sierra

Setup:

1. brew install boost
2. svn checkout https://github.com/vldr/LightBlog/trunk/web
3. curl -o sql.db https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vldr/LightBlog/master/sql/sql.db
4. chmod +x lightblog
5. ./lightblog THREADS(default 1) PORT(default 8080) DBFILENAME(default sql.db)

Ubuntu

Setup:

1. apt-get update
2. apt-get install libboost-all-dev
3. svn checkout https://github.com/vldr/LightBlog/trunk/web
4. wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vldr/LightBlog/master/sql/sql.db
5. chmod +x lightblog
6. ./lightblog THREADS(default 1) PORT(default 8080) DBFILENAME(default sql.db)

Benchmark

~10,000 hits per second sustained (higher would require better network or load balancing)

Database

LightBlog uses SQLite 3.

Password Hashing

SCrypt is used for hashing passwords...

Logging In

Go to /login and logon to change username and pasword; default username and password is: admin and admin