Re: Render pages like pystaticfile, but at arbitrary URLs

Chris G <[email protected]> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:58:00 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.pyblosxom.user
Message-ID <20080325195800.GA11060@th-shell-1>
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 01:17:16PM -0500, Steve Hoelzer wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Chris G <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:37:48AM -0500, Steve Hoelzer wrote:
> >  > I'd like to render some pages just like pystaticfile [1], except I
> >  > don't want the URLs all prefixed with static/.
> >  >
> >  I started using Pyblosxom in this fashion but I have since migrated to
> >  using a much simpler approach.  I have added the following to my
> >  apache configuration:-
> >
> <snip>
> >
> >  ... and as a result any reStructuredText files on my web site are
> >  *automatically* converted to HTML by apache.  I have a little extra
> >  bit in /home/chris/bin/info2html.py that adds a menu in a sidebar but
> >  that's just a luxury!
> 
> This technique works completely independent of pyblosxom, right? That
> isn't quite what I'm looking for.
> 
Yes, that's right.

> Pystaticfile uses pyblosxom's flavor files to construct the page so
> you get the same header/footer/sidebar content. The "static" file is
> used as the story part of those pages.
> 
Exactly, hence my sidebar addon in the /home/chris/bin/info2html.py
script which generates a sidebar.  I don't generate headers and
footers but it wouldn't be very difficult.

-- 
Chris Green

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