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I made a small change to how permalinks are stored under PyBlosxom. Instead of 2005/05/article.txt, it's now 2005-05/article.txt.

It has to do with this (pyBlosxom.py, line 850):

    # Match dates with files if applicable
    if data['pi_yr']:
        # This is called when a date has been requested, e.g. /some/category/2004/Sep
        month = (data['pi_mo'] in tools.month2num.keys() and tools.month2num[data['pi_mo']] or data['pi_mo'])
        matchstr = "^" + data["pi_yr"] + month + data["pi_da"]
        valid_list = [x for x in entrylist if re.match(matchstr, x[1]._fulltime)]
    else:
        valid_list = entrylist

Out of the box, as of version 1.2, PyBlosxom isn't compatible with the common practice of structuring your URL space as whatever/YYYY/MM/article.html. The system will give you permalinks to things like 2005/05/article.html, at at least they won't be a 404, but they will all be identical, and all have all the posts for the given year/month. If there were a PyBlosxom FAQ, this would probably be in it. :)

Why does this happen? When the request URL has something like 2005/05 in it, PyBlosxom goes into 'show all posts in that date range' mode. This is pi_yr and pi_mo in the code above. So anything on the URL after the date part gets ignored, and it basically doesn't matter at that point how your datadir is laid out.

If you really want your PyBlosxom blog to store things this way, you'll need to write a plugin that overrides cb_pathinfo. Keep in mind, though, that you'd still need a way to get at your archives.

Thanks to Uche for helping me figure this out. -m

posted at: 23:12 | under: 2005-05 | 0 comment(s)