Isso – Ich schrei sonst ======================= You love static blog generators (especially [Acrylamid][1] *cough*) and the only option to interact with your community is [Disqus][2]. There's nothing wrong with it, but if you care about the privacy of your audience you are better off with a comment system that is under your control. This is, where Isso comes into play. [1]: https://github.com/posativ/acrylamid [2]: https://disqus.com/ **[Try Yourself!](http://posativ.org/isso/)** Features -------- * [CRUD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Create,_read,_update_and_delete) comments written in Markdown * SQLite backend, Disqus import * client-side JS (currently 54kb minified, 18kb gzipped) * I18N, available in german and english (also fallback) Installation ------------ - Python 2.6, 2.7 or 3.3 - a working C compiler Install Isso with: ~> pip install isso Set your database location and website: ~> cat my.cfg [general] dbpath = /var/lib/isso/comments.db host = http://example.tld/ Optional: you can import your comments from [Disqus.com](https://disqus.com/): ~> isso -c my.cfg import ~/Downloads/user-2013-09-02T11_39_22.971478-all.xml [100%] 53 threads, 192 comments Now start the server: ~> isso -c my.cfg run 2013-10-30 09:32:48,369 WARNING: unable to connect to SMTP server 2013-10-30 09:32:48,408 INFO: connected to HTTP server Make sure, Isso can connect to the server that hosts your blog, otherwise you are not able to post comments. Website Integration ------------------- You can run Isso on a dedicated domain or behind a sub URI like `/isso`. It makes actually no difference except for the webserver configuration (see below). Whatever method you prefer (just change the URL), to embed comments add ```html ``` to your HTML (presumedly into ``) and ```html
``` below your post. That's all. The JavaScript client will automatically detect the API endpoint. To show the comment count for posts (but no comments), add ```html ``` to your header and all links ending with `#isso-thread` are updated with the current comment count. This functionality is already included when you embed `embed.min.js`, do *not* mix `embed.min.js` and `count.min.js` in a single document. ### Client Configuration You can configure the client (the JS part) via `data-` attributes: * data-title When you start a new thread (= first comment on a page), Isso sends a GET request that page to see if it a) exists and b) parse the site's heading (currently used as subject in emails). Isso assumes that the title is inside an `h1` tag near the isso thread: ```html

Website Title

Post Title

... ``` In this example, the detected title is `Post Title` as expected, but some older sites may only use a single `h1` as their website's maintitle, and a `h2` for the post title. Unfortunately this is unambiguous and you have to tell Isso what's the actual post title: ```html
``` Make sure to escape the attribute value. * data-prefix Isso usually detects the REST API automatically, but when you serve the JS script on a different location, this may fail. Use `data-prefix` to override the API location: ```html ``` ### Webserver configuration * nginx configuration to run Isso on `/isso`: ```nginx server { listen [::]:80; listen [::]:443 ssl; server_name example.tld; root /var/www/example.tld; location /isso { proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header X-Script-Name /isso; proxy_pass http://localhost:8080; } } ``` * nginx configuration to run Isso on a dedicated domain: ```nginx server { listen [::]:8080; server_name comments.example.tld; location / { proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_pass http://localhost:8080; } } ``` Documentation ------------- - [Configuration](https://github.com/posativ/isso/blob/master/docs/CONFIGURATION.rst) - [uWSGI](https://github.com/posativ/isso/blob/master/docs/uWSGI.md) - [Contributing](https://github.com/posativ/isso/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) - [Development](https://github.com/posativ/isso/blob/master/docs/DEVELOPMENT.md) - [API overview](https://github.com/posativ/isso/raw/master/docs/API.md) Alternatives ------------ - [talkatv](https://github.com/talkatv/talkatv) – Python - [Juvia](https://github.com/phusion/juvia) – Ruby on Rails - [Tildehash.com](http://www.tildehash.com/?article=why-im-reinventing-disqus) – PHP - [SO: Unobtrusive, self-hosted comments](http://stackoverflow.com/q/2053217)