WARNING!!! If you are using coconut, you MUST upgrade to the latest git revision. There is a bug in earlier versions that only allows you to log in with a correct user name and an incorrect password. This includes empty passwords.
A simple markdown based blog engine.
The configuration file is conf.yaml. It must exist because there are no builtin defaults. You will need to generate a new cookie secret for your install. You can do so with the following command:
dd if=/dev/urandom bs=64 count=1 | base64 > cookie && cat cookie && rm cookie
It will output a long string at the end. Copy that string into your config file as the cookie secret.
Articles are in Markdown and should be placed in articles with the file extension ".md". The theme files are in static/theme. Any static files like CSS and images should be placed in static. The login and publish pages are in there as well. Pages are in Markdown, with urls and file paths specified in conf.yaml. Note that all page file paths are relative to static.
You can use coconut-post to partially automate creating posts.
A performance note: Coconut uses bcrypt for the hashed passwords in the config file. It's apart of the very basic login system used to protect the very basic publishing page. This may make it unsuitable for low powered servers. However, use of the login/publishing system is optional; no performance penalty will be incurred if they are not used. Another option may be to use a small work factor. Such a decision should be made based upon how often you back up stuff and how valuble the content on the blog is. The publishing system at present willingly overwrites articles.