The player of games http://damien.krotkine.com/blog/ en Copyright 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:04:07 +0100 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification RSS / Atom feeds per category in Movable Type At last !

I found a nice and easy howto describing how to enable RSS feed per category in Movable Type version 4.x.
Here it is

This blog entry describes how to create a new template (RSS category), map it to the categories, and change the main category widget to link to it. I did the similar steps to create an atom feed for each categories.

So now you can see a small feed icon near each category name, on the main page of my blog index page.

]]> http://damien.krotkine.com/blog/2008/07/rss-atom-feeds-per-category-in.html http://damien.krotkine.com/blog/2008/07/rss-atom-feeds-per-category-in.html en mt atom feed movable type mt rss Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:04:07 +0100 Apache RewriteRule nightmare I spent 2 hours banging my head against the wall regarding Apache RewriteRule. What I wanted was simple :

  • Redirect every http:// URLs to https://
  • Except if it's the atom or RSS URL
  • Redirect the https://.*atom.xml or rss URL to http://

And I failed. I couldn't make a pattern that says : "that doesn't end with atom.xml" or similar...

So I ended up with a compromise : only redirect /cgi-bin/mt URLs to https://. It works but I'm not quite satisfied. I'll give it another try later

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The newest addition on this server :

  • squid to act as proxy
  • backup-manager as a backup solution

backup-manager is not very powerful, but it's small, light and simple to install and configure. All you need is Perl and gettext :) It'll do until I migrate to bacula.

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The features are nice and it looks great, plus the statically generated content means it's fast to deliver. But it's quite a pain to add and edit all the pages through the web interface. I'm quite new to Movable Type, so it might be that I just missed the powerful editor.

Anyway I kind of like it as a whole, but I ca't wait to use advanced features that made me choose MT in the first place : blogging from an iphone, installing new plugins, and editing my templates.

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