Static rendering made its first appearance in PyBlosxom 1.0. It fills the functionality gap for people who want to use PyBlosxom, but don't have a web-server with CGI installed, don't have CGI access, or can't run PyBlosxom for one of a myriad of other reasons. Static rendering allows these people to run PyBlosxom on their local machine, write blog entries, render their entire site into HTML, and then use ftp or some other file copy method to move the pages up to their static web-site.
PyBlosxom's static rendering allows for incremental building. It can scan your entries, figure out what's changed, and render only the pages that need re-rendering.
Beyond that, it's not particularly sophisticated.
These are the instructions for configuring static rendering in PyBlosxom.
Install PyBlosxom. When you're copying the pyblosxom.cgi and config.py files, you don't have to put them in a CGI directory--you can put them in any directory you have permissions in. For example, I created a directory /home/joe/pyblosxom/ and put both files in there.
Add static_dir to your config.py file.
This is the directory we will save all the static output. The value of
static_dir should be a string representing the absolute
path of the output directory for static rendering.
Add static_flavours to your config.py file.
The value of static_flavours should be a list of strings
representing all the flavours that should be rendered. This defaults to
[ "html" ].
Add static_monthnames to your config.py file.
The value (either 1 or 0) will determine if
you want month names (such as April) in the static pages.
Add static_monthnumbers to your config.py
file. The value (either 1 or 0) will
determine if you want month numbers (such as 04 for
April) in the static pages.
Set base_url in your config.py file
to the base url your blog will have. For example, if your static_dir
were set to /home/joe/public_html and the url for that directory
were http://www.joe.com/~joe/ , then you probably want your base_url
to be http://www.joe.com/~joe/ .