Apache Roller is a Java-based, full-featured, multi-user and group-blog server suitable for blog sites large and small. Roller is typically run with Apache Tomcat and MySQL. Roller is made up of the following Maven projects:
The Roller Install, User and Template Guides are available in ODT format (for OpenOffice or LibraOffice):
Hit the Roller Confluence wiki:
Assuming you've got a UNIX shell, Java, Maven and Git:
Get the code:
$ git clone https://github.com/apache/roller.git
Build and test the code:
$ cd roller $ mvn clean install
Run Roller in Jetty with Derby database:
$ cd app $ mvn jetty:run
Once Jetty is up and running browse to http://localhost:8080/roller to try to Roller.
Assuming you‘ve got Docker, here’s how you can run Roller for demo purposes.
Get the code:
$ git clone https://github.com/apache/roller.git
Run Docker Compose to build and launch Roller along with a PostgreSQL database:
$ docker-compose up
It will take a while to build the Docker image. Once it's done browse to http://localhost:8080/roller to try Roller.