static website (and blog) generator?

flexo has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I keep a bunch of Pod files (actually, Perl 6 Pod) hanging around on my local machine that contain my own various notes, and currently use perldoc2xhtml plus a homegrown script to convert them to html and create a small statically generated website out of them.

Can anyone recommend a static website generator -- as opposed to my current hand-rolled setup?

Further, I've been wanting to add a blog to the site as well. Is there any reason I should avoid using statically generated html files for a blog? My plan was to generate the blog in a similar way to the rest of the site (everything done locally), and then just rsync it to the server everytime I add a new post.

Thanks.

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Re: static website (and blog) generator? by Joost (Canon) on Dec 17, 2007 at 21:02 UTC
Can anyone recommend a static website generator -- as opposed to my current hand-rolled setup? Personally, I use a similar hand-rolled setup for my main site based on Template Toolkit with some content generated from pod files. If you're interested I can provide you with the code, but there's only one really interesting piece in it and that's a custom include provider (I didn't like the default include system). For my blog (see profile) I got extremely lazy and just dumped wordpress on a subdomain, because I wanted to allow comments and didn't want to think about design or anything but just posting stuff once a week or so. Further, I've been wanting to add a blog to the site as well. Is there any reason I should avoid using statically generated html files for a blog? Static files will work well. You may need some server scripts if you want to have public comments. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re^2: static website (and blog) generator? by flexo (Sexton) on Dec 17, 2007 at 22:30 UTC
Thank you, Joost. Glad to hear someone else does it frontier-style as well. ;-) Regarding the blog, I don't think I need anything as fancy as WP, but just need to decide between simple generated static files, and (probably) blosxom. I notice the links at the blosxom site look just like static urls, so, both alternatives will look the same to the user anyway.	[reply]
Re^3: static website (and blog) generator? by Joost (Canon) on Dec 17, 2007 at 22:34 UTC
Even if you're going with CGI scripts (no mod_perl but dynamic content) it's reasonably easy to have nice-looking urls that don't even show the actually executed script. One commonly used option is to configure a url-to-script mapping using mod_rewrite. ~~mod_proxy~~ mod_rewrite should be available and configurable via .htaccess files on most hosts that provide CGI. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re: static website (and blog) generator? by naChoZ (Curate) on Dec 17, 2007 at 20:50 UTC
I believe blosxom is on par with what you're seeking. Not sure if it meets your needs 100% but it's worth a look. -- naChoZ Therapy is expensive. Popping bubble wrap is cheap. You choose.	[reply]
Re^2: static website (and blog) generator? by flexo (Sexton) on Dec 17, 2007 at 22:11 UTC
Thanks naChoZ. On the plus side, it looks like it's just a CGI script, so that should work fine with the hosting arrangement I have (no mod_perl). I'll have to read the docs and have a closer look.	[reply]
Re: static website (and blog) generator? by Erez (Priest) on Dec 17, 2007 at 22:24 UTC
I don't really know if this is what you're looking for, but I really like what Yggdrasil is offering in terms of both template and static-generated site. I've been testing it to see whether it can be used for hosting both a site and a blog on it. Although eventually you'll want to invest in a more dynamic environment, especially once you have more than a few posts and definitely if you'll want to have any form of comments. `Software speaks in tongues of man; I debug, therefore I code.`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: static website (and blog) generator? by markbenson (Initiate) on Apr 21, 2014 at 18:34 UTC
Check out http://vanilladraft.com/dapper/. Written in Perl. No CGI required. All static files. Makes it easy (and cheap) to host on Github pages or Amazon S3. More info on CPAN (App::Dapper).	[reply]