This specific fork of it, at least (or its origin, either; it's not going to be easy to update to a more modern framework, either back-end or front-end, and it doesn't seem likely the original maintainers have plans in that direction). I'm working out some things here for my own personal edification. Feel free to look around, though, and see what's going on. 😊
BlogEngine is an open source blogging platform since 2007.
Easily customizable. Many free built-in Themes, Widgets, and Plugins.
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Requirements You need a Windows Hosting that supports ASP.NET 4.5 and above.
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Download Get the latest BlogEngine and extract the zip file on the root of your website.
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Write Permissions Add write permissions to the App_Data and Custom folders on your server.
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Done Navigate to admin panel by adding /admin/ to your website's URL. For example: https://yourwebsite.com/admin/
Username: admin
Password: admin
Environment:
- Visual Studio
- ASP.NET 4.5+
Steps:
- Clone repository
- Open solution in Visual Studio 2015 +
- Build and run solution to load website in the browser
- You can navigate to administration on: http://localhost:64079/admin/
- Username: admin Password admin
After install, update machineKey in Web.config with values generated with tool like this. This will prevent known exploit (reported Sep 2019). This only effects if you use default admin account.
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