Your very own microblog.
HowlerBlog is a free, open-source microblogging web application, built to run on any standard ~LAMP server.
The only main dependency is Laravel and associated friends, and should therefore be highly portable.
Run your own Twitter-like microblog!
(Support for image media and quoting forthcoming.)
Share a collection of cool/interesting bookmarks to your friends. Or, keep them to yourself using the privacy setting - your choice!
Display a list of all of your new Howler friends, or not!
Built-in support for generating an RSS or ATOM feed of your microblog posts. Also included is a JSON endpoint, helpful for doing integrations into your existing web properties.
Similar to classic PHP apps like PHPMyAdmin, Piwigo or WordPress, you simply need to upload the files, and set a few settings in a configuration file.
So, steps to deploy...
- Upload files to your webhost using SFTP or WebDav.
- Configure the app_settings.ini file found in the /common directory.
- Upload the blank/empty starter database (howler.sql) into your database server.
- Windows/MacOS/FreeBSD/Linux
- Apache
- PHP
- MySQL or MariaDB
Note: This will probably work on earlier versions of PHP, but was built against PHP 8.1.
Not a developer and just want to get this up and running?
Download one of our pre-made zip files made available in the Releases section, unarchive, upload and then configure.
If you plan on extending or improving Howler Blog.
- Laravel - PHP web framework.
- Psalm - Static analysis tool from Vimeo.
- OpenGraph - Helper class for scraping OG info.
To restore dependencies:
% cd /path/to/howler_directory
% composer installThis web application was built using standard Laravel practices and should be easy for most developers to extend, even if not previously familiar with Laravel.
This project is licensed under MIT.