I have posted on NB sourceforge.net website a style sheet that mimic the
look of a Sourceforge. You can download it at:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/download.php?group_id=103576&atid=661799&\
file_id=400189&aid=3167714

As a good example, you can browse at:

http://nb2gopher.sourceforge.net/

-- Deber

Thats great, I've been struggling with that problem for a while. Thanks for
posting- what does the "%" signify?

a5'




--- In nanoblogger@yahoogroups.com, Charles Curley <charlescurley@...> wrote:
>
> I used %base_url% in a blog entry recently to specify a relative path
> from my blog (at /blog) to some images I use elsewhere on my web site
> (/images). So the link's source looks like:
>
> src="%base_url%../images/...
>
> Just now, I upgraded from nb 3.4.1 to 3.4.2. In the process I ran "nb
> update all", per the instructions in the read me. The relative link was
> broken. Instead of getting
>
> src="./../images
>
> I got
>
> src="./../../../images
>
> To work around the problem, I simply edited the entry. That fixed the
> link. Subsequent "nb update all" commands produced the correct path.
>
> I didn't check in the archive copy before editing the entry, but the
> link is correct after editing. I also didn't check relative links into
> the blog tree, such as links to past entries.
>
> --
>
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>

Sharon,

The correct shell variable is $VERSION.

Kevin

--- In nanoblogger@yahoogroups.com, Sharon Kimble <skimble04@...> wrote:
>
> I have just upgraded my blog to nanoblogger 3.4.2 but am not able to reflect
> that change in the blog itself. Where is the variable < $version > set
> please. I've hunted high and low for it but all without success, I'm hoping
> that someone can tell me so that I can display the correct version number in
> the blog.
>
> Thanks
> Sharon.
>

Until a couple of days ago, I was using Nanoblogger in conjunction with Debian
Lenny, now superseded by Debian Squeeze.

Since moving to Squeeze, the calendar plugin doesn't work right anymore. Here's
the output you'll find on every html page featuring the calendar:
http://pastebin.com/qGVK7x1J

At first I thought this was related to Debian's move to dash as the standard
shell. I re-configured /bin/sh to link to /bin/bash instead of /bin/dash, but no
luck.

I moved back to Lenny for now, since I'm not the most technical person/ don't
know what the problem is.

I just thought you'd like to know this, since every problem in Debian is a
problem for Ubuntu et al. as well.

Ok, figured it out:

I specified CAL_ARGS=-m in blog.conf, so that the calendar week would start with
monday. Calling cal with the -m option doesn't work in Squeeze anymore. You will
have to use ncal -M to get a similar result. And when I say similar, I mean that
ncal has a different layout, and this does not chime well with nanoblogger.

Your output will look like this:
Tu Tu We We Th Th Fr Fr Sa Sa Su Su
April 2011 Mo  4  11  18  25
	 Tu  5  12  19  26
	 We  6  13  20  27
	 Th  7  14  21  28
Fr  1  8  15  22  29
Sa  2  9  16  23  30
Su  3  10  17  24

So I'm using cal now, without calling any arguments.

Hope this helps,
Dan

--- In nanoblogger@yahoogroups.com, guhoka81@... wrote:
>
> Until a couple of days ago, I was using Nanoblogger in conjunction with Debian
Lenny, now superseded by Debian Squeeze.
>
> Since moving to Squeeze, the calendar plugin doesn't work right anymore.
Here's the output you'll find on every html page featuring the calendar:
http://pastebin.com/qGVK7x1J
>
> At first I thought this was related to Debian's move to dash as the standard
shell. I re-configured /bin/sh to link to /bin/bash instead of /bin/dash, but no
luck.
>
> I moved back to Lenny for now, since I'm not the most technical person/ don't
know what the problem is.
>
> I just thought you'd like to know this, since every problem in Debian is a
problem for Ubuntu et al. as well.
>

This can be circumenvented by specifying
ABSOLUTE_LINKS="1"
in blog.conf.

Granted, you use relative links, but at least everything works.

--- In nanoblogger@yahoogroups.com, "Kevin W." <un1xt3r@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Charles,
>
> Thanks for the bug report. I was able to reproduce this in version 3.4.2.
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
>
>
>
> >
> >From: Charles Curley <charlescurley@...>
> >To: nanoblogger@yahoogroups.com
> >Sent: Fri, May 28, 2010 4:22:46 PM
> >Subject: [nanoblogger] Broken links deep in the tree.
> >
> >  >
> >>
> >
> >I just had occasion to run "nb update all". Now a lot of the links deep
> >>in the blog tree are broken. E.g. what should be
> >
> >http://www.charlescurley.com/blog/archives/privacy/index.html
> >
> >>is instead:
> >
>
>http://www.charlescurley.com/blog/archives/2009/11/archives/privacy/index.html
> >
> >>For a complete list of link problems:
> >
>
>http://validator.w3.org/checklink?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.charlescurley.com%2Fblog\
%2F&summary=on&hide_type=all&recursive=on&depth=&check=Check>
> >
> >>Note that my blog is in a subdirectory under the web root, "blog".
> >
> >>Thanks.
> >
> >>--
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> >
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> >
> >
>

On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:13:49 -0000
guhoka81@... wrote:

> This can be circumenvented by specifying
> ABSOLUTE_LINKS="1"
> in blog.conf.
>
> Granted, you use relative links, but at least everything works.

Thanks. I tried that. Everything seems to work on the main site, but not
on the backup site or on the staging site. Since I use the latter to
work with a blog entry in progress, that's rather important.


>
> --- In nanoblogger@yahoogroups.com, "Kevin W." <un1xt3r@...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Charles,
> >
> > Thanks for the bug report. I was able to reproduce this in version
> > 3.4.2.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kevin
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > >From: Charles Curley <charlescurley@...>
> > >To: nanoblogger@yahoogroups.com
> > >Sent: Fri, May 28, 2010 4:22:46 PM
> > >Subject: [nanoblogger] Broken links deep in the tree.
> > >
> > >  >
> > >>
> > >
> > >I just had occasion to run "nb update all". Now a lot of the links
> > >deep
> > >>in the blog tree are broken. E.g. what should be
> > >
> > >http://www.charlescurley.com/blog/archives/privacy/index.html
> > >
> > >>is instead:
> > >
> >
>http://www.charlescurley.com/blog/archives/2009/11/archives/privacy/index.html
> > >
> > >>For a complete list of link problems:
> > >
> >
>http://validator.w3.org/checklink?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.charlescurley.com%2Fblog\
%2F&summary=on&hide_type=all&recursive=on&depth=&check=Check>
> > >
> > >>Note that my blog is in a subdirectory under the web root, "blog".
> > >
> > >>Thanks.
> > >
> > >>--
> > >
> > >>Charles Curley                  /"\    ASCII Ribbon Campaign
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> > >
> > >>Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0  809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD
> > >>DFDB
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>
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--- In nanoblogger@yahoogroups.com, Charles Curley <charlescurley@...> wrote:

> Thanks. I tried that. Everything seems to work on the main site, but not
> on the backup site or on the staging site. Since I use the latter to
> work with a blog entry in progress, that's rather important.
>

By "not work" you mean you get 404's? Because that's the downside, you won't be
able to view new entries (perma/category view) unless you upload the files.

BTW I create a draft to work on unpublished stuff (nb -b $nanodir draft
somefile.txt). You can import it later on. HTH

--- In nanoblogger@yahoogroups.com, Charles Curley <charlescurley@...> wrote:

> Thanks. I tried that. Everything seems to work on the main site, but not
> on the backup site or on the staging site. Since I use the latter to
> work with a blog entry in progress, that's rather important.
>

By "not work" you mean you get 404's? Because that's the downside, you won't be
able to view new entries (perma/category view) unless you upload the files.

BTW I create a draft to work on unpublished stuff (nb -b $nanodir draft
somefile.txt). You can import it later on. HTH

On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 17:43:15 -0000
guhoka81@... wrote:

> --- In nanoblogger@yahoogroups.com, Charles Curley
> <charlescurley@...> wrote:
>
> > Thanks. I tried that. Everything seems to work on the main site,
> > but not on the backup site or on the staging site. Since I use the
> > latter to work with a blog entry in progress, that's rather
> > important.
> >
>
> By "not work" you mean you get 404's? Because that's the downside,
> you won't be able to view new entries (perma/category view) unless
> you upload the files.

No. When I use absolute URLs, I get URLs with the domain name of the
server. If I'm using localhost for my development server, I don't need
links to charlescurley.com.

>
> BTW I create a draft to work on unpublished stuff (nb -b $nanodir
> draft somefile.txt). You can import it later on. HTH
>
>
>
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>
>
>



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Hi,

just wondering if anyone knows what the "%" signifies in "%base_url%" I have
looked through the bash, sh and builtin man pages but never was able to tease
out the meaning, for my understanding.

Is it interpreted by bash, tidy or html?

Is it a shell command?

thanks,

softer.







> Thats great, I've been struggling with that problem for a while. Thanks for
posting- what does the "%" signify?
>
> a5'
>

I've moved over to Debian 6 from CentOS 5.6 which was relatively
painless except now when I'm trying to document my changeover and I've
lost my stylesheets. Can anyone give me a clue as to how to restore
them please and to get my blog looking okay again. So far I haven't
published my latest article as  the file preview looks so awful. This
is in nanoblogger 3.3.2.

Hopefully thanks
Sharon.
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Following on from this I feel sure that the same problem has occurred
in the past, but I cant remember how it was resolved, and neither can
i find it in the archives of the group.

Can anyone help please?

Sharon.

On 14 May 2011 01:20, Sharon Kimble <skimble04@...> wrote:
>
>
> On 13 May 2011 23:33, Kevin W. <un1xt3r@...> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Sharon,
>>
>> Thanks for doing that, you're awesome! Try removing $BLOG_URL from your
>> BLOG_CSS setting in blog.conf.
>>
>> It should look more like: BLOG_CSS="styles/mt_clean.css" then regenerate
>> your index page using "-u main".
>
>
> The default blog.conf is like this;=
> ===========================
> # Set the URL of your Blog site. e.g. http://www.myweblog.com
> # no trailing forward slash required.
> BLOG_URL="http://www.sharons.org.uk/taste/"
>
> # Set the Blog's Stylesheet.
> #BLOG_CSS="$BLOG_URL/styles/nb_default.css"
> BLOG_CSS="styles/mt_clean.css"
> ===============================
>
> and the blog blog.conf is like this;=
> ===============================
> # Set the URL of your Blog site. e.g. http://www.myweblog.com
> # no trailing forward slash required.
> BLOG_URL="http://www.sharons.org.uk/taste/"
>
> # Set the Blog's Stylesheet.
> #BLOG_CSS="$BLOG_URL/styles/nb_default.css"
> BLOG_CSS="styles/mt_clean.css"
> ===============================
>
>
> and when i run "./nb -u main" only default gets updated, but it still
> displays the broken index.html page.
>
> I currently have a 'blog' with articles going back to 2004 and a 'default'
> going back to 2004 also! Which confuses me too, as i only update and use
> 'blog'. but both index.html pages show only the broken displays,
> unfortunately!
>>
>> I also noticed something funky going on with your articles, but by all
>> means upgrade your copy of NanoBlogger.
>> It should be an easy upgrade, but always backup as a precautionary.
>
> I'm not going to upgrade until i've got the display of the pages back to as
> it used to be, then i'll have a go at upgrading.
>
> Any more ideas please, because i really want to carry on using nanoblogger
> as i think its great.
>
> Hopefully thanks :)
> Sharon.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kevin
>>
>>
>> From: Sharon Kimble <skimble04@...>
>> To: nanoblogger@yahoogroups.com
>> Sent: Mon, May 9, 2011 8:09:11 PM
>> Subject: Re: [nanoblogger] missing style sheets
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10 May 2011 00:05, Kevin W. <un1xt3r@...> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Sharon,
>>>
>>> I checked your website[1] and was unable to reproduce the problem. Is
>>> there another link you could provide?
>>
>> I was so embarrassed about the state of the index page that i didn't
>> upload it , I can do that now though so you can see what it currently looks
>> like. Right, the 'bad' index page has been uploaded so you can see what I
>> mean.
>>>
>>> Also, this may be a long shot, but where are you hosting the weblog
>>> (index.html)? Has it changed with your move to CentOS?
>>
>> The index.html remains the same as before, in a programmes, nanoblogger
>> folder.
>>>
>>> As far as upgrading is concerned, I would encourage you to backup your
>>> old posts and go for it!
>>
>> If I upgrade do I lose all the old posts? Its that that’s stopping me from
>> upgrading.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Sharon.
>>>
>>> 1.  http://www.sharons.org.uk/taste/index.html
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Kevin
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Sharon Kimble <skimble04@...>
>>> To: nanoblogger@yahoogroups.com
>>> Sent: Mon, May 2, 2011 10:14:00 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [nanoblogger] missing style sheets
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1 May 2011 23:31, Kevin W. <un1xt3r@...> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Sharon,
>>>>
>>>> It's not clear to me how you lost your style sheets.
>>>>
>>>> 1. Are the files themselves missing or is the link to the style sheet no
>>>> longer resolving properly?
>>>
>>> The css files are still there and the link to the style sheet hasn't
>>> changed, but the index.html has all the posts at the top of the page, with
>>> all the other gubbins at the bottom of the page instead of at the right hand
>>> side.
>>>
>>>> 2. Have you recently upgraded to a newer version of Nanoblogger?
>>>
>>> No, the only change has been that I've changed operating systems from
>>> CentOS to Debian 6. I'm still using nanoblogger 3.2.3 as I haven't heard of
>>> a way to upgrade without losing all the original posts.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Sharon.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Kevin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From: Sharon Kimble <skimble04@...>
>>>> To: nanoblogger@yahoogroups.com
>>>> Sent: Sat, April 30, 2011 10:09:51 AM
>>>> Subject: [nanoblogger] missing style sheets
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I've moved over to Debian 6 from CentOS 5.6 which was relatively
>>>> painless except now when I'm trying to document my changeover and I've
>>>> lost my stylesheets. Can anyone give me a clue as to how to restore
>>>> them please and to get my blog looking okay again. So far I haven't
>>>> published my latest article as the file preview looks so awful. This
>>>> is in nanoblogger 3.3.2.
>>>>
>>>> Hopefully thank
>>
>>
>
>
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Dear All,
I have just started a new job, working with a mixed environment.  I have ended
up using an old Mac as my desktop machine.  A couple of days ago I decided to
have a go at getting Nanablogger working (it is just a pretty version of BSD
after all) and it has been a success.

Would anyone be interested in me writing up my experience and possibly adding to
the documentation?

regards

Richard

On Sat, 28 May 2011 03:09:00 +0100
Sharon Kimble <skimble04@...> wrote:

> > Also, does nb currently reside in the same directory as your weblog?
> > Noticed you called nb using './nb' ...
> >
> I have to do that to get the program to run.

OK, then it isn't in your path. To see if the executable foo is in your
path, run 'which foo'.

>
> > If that's true, I might suggest making the following changes to
> > your base install and runtime environment:
> > 1. move nanoblogger to it's own directory and adding nb to your
> > PATH. (e.g. PATH=$PATH:$HOME/apps/nanoblogger/nb)
> >
> I'm not sure I understand you here as nanoblogger is already in its
> own directory at /home/boztu/programmes/nanoblogger-3.2.3/

Which wouldn't be in your path unless you put it there. So you need:

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/programmes/nanoblogger-3.2.3/

(Assuming $HOME expands to '/home/boztu'. Run 'echo $HOME' to confirm.)

Try it in a konsole session to test it.

To make it permanent, add it to one of your bash setup files. E.g.:
I used to have the following in /etc/profile:

export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/bin/nanoblogger




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I've now installed nanoblogger with apt-get and nb.conf is in
/etc/nanoblogger/nb.conf and nb is now in /usr/bin/nb so i no longer
have to use ./nb but instead use nb. I'm still trying to find where
the default directory is to place my blog in, and then maybe i cna get
it working properly again?

Sharon.

On 28 May 2011 03:58, Charles Curley <charlescurley@...> wrote:
> On Sat, 28 May 2011 03:09:00 +0100
> Sharon Kimble <skimble04@...> wrote:
>
>> > Also, does nb currently reside in the same directory as your weblog?
>> > Noticed you called nb using './nb' ...
>> >
>> I have to do that to get the program to run.
>
> OK, then it isn't in your path. To see if the executable foo is in your
> path, run 'which foo'.
>
>>
>> > If that's true, I might suggest making the following changes to
>> > your base install and runtime environment:
>> > 1. move nanoblogger to it's own directory and adding nb to your
>> > PATH. (e.g. PATH=$PATH:$HOME/apps/nanoblogger/nb)
>> >
>> I'm not sure I understand you here as nanoblogger is already in its
>> own directory at /home/boztu/programmes/nanoblogger-3.2.3/
>
> Which wouldn't be in your path unless you put it there. So you need:
>
> PATH=$PATH:$HOME/programmes/nanoblogger-3.2.3/
>
> (Assuming $HOME expands to '/home/boztu'. Run 'echo $HOME' to confirm.)
>
> Try it in a konsole session to test it.
>
> To make it permanent, add it to one of your bash setup files. E.g.:
> I used to have the following in /etc/profile:
>
> export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/bin/nanoblogger
>
>
>
>
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On Sat, 28 May 2011 05:23:05 +0100
Sharon Kimble <skimble04@...> wrote:

> I've now installed nanoblogger with apt-get and nb.conf is in
> /etc/nanoblogger/nb.conf and nb is now in /usr/bin/nb so i no longer
> have to use ./nb but instead use nb. I'm still trying to find where
> the default directory is to place my blog in, and then maybe i cna get
> it working properly again?
>

Ah, that should simplify things.

Put the blog anywhere you want. cd into that directory and away you go.

I put my web site (including my blog) under ~/public_html so I can use
apache on my laptop to preview it before I toss it onto my servers. So I
have ~/public_html/crcweb for the site, and the blog is in
~/public_html/crcweb/blog.


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I've finally solved this by looking at the source code of my web page
and seeing that it was pointed at a non-existent style sheet! It
existed on the website but not in the local directory, so its now
running more or less okay.

Thanks all for your input, its been a learning experience!

Sharon.
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