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Personally speaking I'd like to see a dead simple to self-host CMS that has built-in comments and RSS, making it trivially easy for people to spin up a simple w

Personally speaking I'd like to see a dead simple to self-host CMS that has built-in comments and RSS, making it trivially easy for people to spin up a simple website or blog or even a webpage, and connect it to a domain they have purchased (or even get one from within the CMS). And by dead simple, I mean something grandpa can do. All they should need is enough skills to install an app, click through a welcome wizard, and start writing on its WYSIWYG editor.

swiley 6y ago
You can just open a word processor and save the files to /var/www/ in html format. You don't even need an installation wizard (although on most mainstream OSes you do have to push a button in a GUI somewhere to enable the webserver.) If (for some reason) your computer doesn't have a public address you can install TOR. People with normal browsers will be able to access the pages (even from search engines) via gateways.
- Santosh83 6y ago
  I get what you're saying but grandpa is not going to be using Unix (Linux) so /var/www/ is out of question. I'm thinking more along the lines of Publii with a built-in Caddy, just to give an example. If the computer doesn't have a publicly reachable IP then that's a much tougher obstacle. That can only be solved by voting with your wallet for ISPs that do give you a public IP with reachable ports. Net neutrality is critical for decentralisation and self-hosting.
  - swiley 6y ago
    This is a feature that works out of the box on OSX. Both /var/www and ~/public are places to put documents. The button to enable appache is in the settings dialog under "sharing" I think. I only use that path because I have no idea what the windows equivalent is but it also ships with a similar feature.
    - Santosh83 6y ago
      As far as I can tell, Windows doesn't ship with a web server bundled. You can however install IIS through "activate Windows features" dialogue but not many people use IIS outside enterprise I'd imagine.

swiley 6y ago

You can just open a word processor and save the files to /var/www/ in html format. You don't even need an installation wizard (although on most mainstream OSes you do have to push a button in a GUI somewhere to enable the webserver.) If (for some reason) your computer doesn't have a public address you can install TOR. People with normal browsers will be able to access the pages (even from search engines) via gateways.

Santosh83 6y ago
I get what you're saying but grandpa is not going to be using Unix (Linux) so /var/www/ is out of question. I'm thinking more along the lines of Publii with a built-in Caddy, just to give an example. If the computer doesn't have a publicly reachable IP then that's a much tougher obstacle. That can only be solved by voting with your wallet for ISPs that do give you a public IP with reachable ports. Net neutrality is critical for decentralisation and self-hosting.
- swiley 6y ago
  This is a feature that works out of the box on OSX. Both /var/www and ~/public are places to put documents. The button to enable appache is in the settings dialog under "sharing" I think. I only use that path because I have no idea what the windows equivalent is but it also ships with a similar feature.
  - Santosh83 6y ago
    As far as I can tell, Windows doesn't ship with a web server bundled. You can however install IIS through "activate Windows features" dialogue but not many people use IIS outside enterprise I'd imagine.