OctBlog is almost the same with MayBlog except that it is powered by Flask and MongoDB rather than Django and SQL Databases.

And as my customary, I named it OctBlog as OctBlog was started in October, 2015

OctBlog offers every function in MayBlog, and aims to do it better, its features are as follow:

• multiple user
• roles: su, admin, editor, writer, reader
• posts, pages, tags, and categories
• markdown support
• admin interface
• change configurations by configuration file or environment variable
• multiple comment plugin
• RESTful API(not yet)
• Deploy with docker

Gevin's blog is powered by OctBlog

• Flask
  • flask-script
  • flask-login
  • flask-admin
  • Flask-WTF
  • flask-principal
  • flask_mongoengine
• WTForms
• mongoengine
• markdown2

• jQuery
• BootStrap
  • Clean Blog theme
  • bootbox.js
  • bootstrap-markdown.js
  • bootstrap-datetimepicker.js
• Font Awesome
• highlight.js

If you want to see more about the source code, checkout the source code readme

Run OctBlog by docker is recommended, here are some instruction：

1. Build your own OctBlog image

In command line, switch to OctBlog root directory, and run the following command to build your own OctBlog image:

(sudo) docker-compose build

# Now you can take a cup of coffee and wait for a few minutes :)

2. Run OctBlog

(sudo) docker-compose up -d

Then you can visit OctBlog in your brower at http://localhost:8000

3. Get into OctBlog container

Maybe you would like to dig into the container, the following command will help:

# Specify OctBlog container ID, eg:12345678
(sudo) docker ps

# Get into OctBlog container
(sudo) docker exec -it 12345678 bash

• Start OctBlog

(sudo) docker-compose start

• Stop OctBlog

(sudo) docker-compose stop

Visit the following url and create a superuser

http://localhost:8000/accounts/registration/su

If the url is forbidden, you need to modify your configurations to allow the creation.

The admin home is: http://localhost:8000/admin

You will be redirected to login page if you haven't logged in

You either change settings in app/OctBlog/config.py file, or set environment variables defined in that file.

Setting environment variables is recommended, and once the configuration is changed, you need to restart the service.

OctBlog is under GPL2