The following page captures other useful information about setting up, running, and working with blojsom.

General

Question: What does blojsom stand for?
Answer: I was looking for a way to play off the name, blosxom, blojsom's not-so-distant "relative" and blojsom stuck.

Question: How do you pronounce blojsom?
Answer: Phonetically, it would be bloj-sum.

Question: Who did the artwork and images?
Answer: Mark Pierce over at Omnimodo.

Question: Do you have blojsom wallpaper?
Answer: Yes. Blue. Grey. Red.

Internationalization

Question: I'm having trouble displaying entries with international characters. What should I check for?
Answer: By default, blojsom uses UTF-8 as the character encoding used when reading and writing blog entries. You should not need to change this setting in the blog properties. You can change the character encoding used when reading and writing blog entries, comments, and trackbacks by changing the blog-file-encoding parameter in an individual /WEB-INF/(blog-id)/blog.properties file.

If you're using Tomcat and you're having issues with international characters in your URLs, then you might want to look at your server.xml file and check out the settings for various defined <Connector .../> elements.

Set your URIEncoding attribute to UTF-8, which is the character encoding format blojsom uses for encoding links.

Why the need to change this attribute? According to the URIencoding attribute documentation for this element in the Tomcat 5 connector documentation, "This specifies the character encoding used to decode the URI bytes, after %xx decoding the URL. If not specified, ISO-8859-1 will be used.".

For example:

<Connector port="8080"
    maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75"
    enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" acceptCount="100"
    debug="0" connectionTimeout="20000"
    disableUploadTimeout="true" URIEncoding="UTF-8" />

Licensing

Question: Is blojsom free?
Answer: Yes

Question: How is blojsom licensed?
Answer: blojsom uses the BSD license. The blojsom license is given below:

Copyright (c) 2003-2007, David A. Czarnecki
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the
    following disclaimer.
Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the
    following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
Neither the name of "David A. Czarnecki" and "blojsom" nor the names of its contributors may be used to
    endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
Products derived from this software may not be called "blojsom", nor may "blojsom" appear in their name,
    without prior written permission of David A. Czarnecki.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND
CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES,
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO
EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED
AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT,
STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)
ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF
ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Platform-specific Issues

Question: Any special instructions for running blojsom under Windows?
Answer: Paths such as the blog-home parameter in your individual /WEB-INF/(blog-id)/blog.properties file should use '/' instead of '\'. For example:

...
blog-home=C:/blogs/default/
...