Setting up dasBlog 1.6 blogging software

There are 2 main .NET based blogging software options out there, .Text http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/dottext and dasBlog www.dasblog.net.

I chose dasBlog as it has been around for longer and was easier to set up. It doesn't require a database either (xml based, using caching) and is feature packed.

I set up a virtual directory in IIS by hand, and then used the MSI installer for the content only (see the releases section in the site above) to unpack the files into the root folder of the new IIS website for my blog.

For some reason, my image folder was missing, this can be downloaded from the site above and is a known problem, just unzip into the root folder of your website.

Follow http://www.dasblog.net/documentation/ instructions to configure. There are only a few steps to follow and then you should be up and running in no time.

dasBlog is released under a FreeBSD license which is great if you want to extend and re-license as proprietary software and well as fully customising for your own needs and/or for that of the dasBlog community