A simple personal blogging platform - self-hosted, of course

BansheeBlog is a simple but useful blogging platform that is perfect for running a personal blog, where you can post articles and upload images and other files to share with your readers

Features

• Cross-platform (.NET Core)
• Server-side rendering of articles
  • Ensures support for all browsers, even with javascript disabled
• Server-side analytics to collect basic information about the visits to the blog
• Markdown for text-formatting of articles
  • SimpleMDE as a nice and useful Markdown editor
    • Markdown cheatsheet here
• Administration webapp built with Preact
• Backend server built with RedHttpServer
  • Embedded database using SQLite
  • Password hashing with BCrypt
  • Server-side rendering using
    • Handlebars
    • CommonMark / Markdown

Installation

• Download the latest release
• Extract to where you want the server to be
• Navigate inside the extracted folder in a terminal
• Run dotnet BansheeBlog.dll to start the server
  • A file named credentials.txt, containing inital admin credentials, will be created in the root folder on first start
  • A configuration file named config.json is created on first start
    • If you need to change it, you must (re)start the server after saving the changed configuration

Upgrading

• Download the latest release
• Extract everything except the data folder from the root of the banshee-blog folder, inside the archive, into the root of your BansheeBlog installation and overwrite
• Delete all the files in the admin-folder in your public root
• Extract everything from the folder banshee-blog/data/public/admin, inside the archive, into the admin-folder in your public root
• Extract the folders from banshee-blog/data/themes, inside the archive, into your themes folder and overwrite