Thraxil Weblog Engine

Thraxil is a community weblog engine written by Anders Pearson.

Thraxil was written in Perl and utilizes the PostgreSQL database.

See Thraxil in action.

Features

Thraxil has a number of advanced features including:

• multiple user accounts
• threaded comments
• image support
• bookmarks
• user diaries
• flexible themes/skins
• intelligent caching for good performance
• keywords
• proper handling of multiple timezones
• markov chain random text generator

Download

The source code is available under the GNU GPL (see LICENSE). please note that Thraxil is not intended as a beginner's weblogging tool. please do not try to install it unless you have administrative access to your own webserver, have a good understanding of Apache configuration, know how to use postgresql, are comfortable installing Perl modules, and aren't afraid to read the instructions closely.

note: a server move is coming up soon. i've done a good deal of work on improving the codebase (better caching, better mod_perl performance, and some new features). you may want to hold off on actually installing thraxil for a few weeks till i get the new version fully tested and release it.

Installation

See the installation guide

Development

There is a changelog.

Thraxil is being actively worked on by anders in his spare time. some of the main items on the todo list are:

• an RSS feed
• ability to import data from MovableType or Blogger archive files
• porting to multiple databases (Mysql, Oracle, etc)
• easier installation
• XML-RPC interface

Anders welcomes patches for any of the above (or pretty much any other cool feature).