Planet

Planet is a blog feed aggregator that is running on Web1. It will parse the given news feeds and then turn them into a single combined feed and web page.

Adding a New Blog

Once logged in as root on cosi.sr:

• Open the file: /var/www/planet/examples/fancy/config.ini
• Scroll to the bottom and add:

  [http://link/to/blog/feed.rss]
  name = John Doe
  # Uncomment the following line to give the user an image.  Images go in /var/www/planet/output/images
  # face = image_name.png

• Save the file
• Run the script

 /usr/local/bin/planet-update.sh

Important Files

All planet files are located in /var/www/planet/. These are ones of some notable importance:

• examples/fancy/index.php.tmpl — Template used for main page generation.
• examples/fancy/config.ini — Configuration file for planet.

Notes

When the /usr/local/bin/planet-update.sh script is executed, it just calls the planet.py python file. What will happen is planet will read the index.php.tmpl file and then create a normal browser-readable index file at /var/www/planet/output/index.php. Apache sees /var/www/planet/output as the root document folder for the website.

See Also

• [1] — Planet COSI
• Planet Planet — Planet Feed Reader