From: Christian Weiske Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 17:06:22 +0000 (+0200) Subject: update readme X-Git-Url: https://git.cweiske.de/stapibas.git/commitdiff_plain/a7a63d2f43623af817cba4fe0690e326e17cb845 update readme --- diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 108c90c..67d9ac5 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ stapibas ******** The standalone Pingback server, written in PHP. +- Receives linkbacks (webmention and pingbacks) +- Watches your website's Feed to send out linkbacks to all linked URLs + Alternative to `Trackback ‘em All`__ __ http://scott.yang.id.au/code/trackback-em-all/ @@ -16,26 +19,30 @@ Dependencies - `Console_CommandLine`__ - `Net_URL2`__ - `HTTP_Request2`__ -- `PEAR2 Services_Pingback`__ +- `PEAR2 Services_Linkback`__ - `SimplePie`__ __ http://pear.php.net/package/Console_CommandLine __ http://pear.php.net/package/Net_URL2 __ http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request2 -__ https://github.com/pear2/Services_Pingback +__ https://github.com/pear2/Services_Linkback __ http://simplepie.org/ + ================= Pingback receiver ================= stapibas receives pingbacks for your website and puts them into a database. +It also sends them as email to a configured address. + Setup ===== -Let your website send out the following HTTP header:: +Let your website send out the following HTTP headers:: X-Pingback: http://stapibas.example.org/xmlrpc.php + Header set Link '; rel="webmention"' That's all. @@ -46,19 +53,23 @@ Pingback sender stapibas is able to send pingbacks out to other websites at behalf of your website. -It does this by watching your website's Atom feed. +It does this by watching your website's Atom (or RSS) feed. Whenever it changes, it fetches the articles that are new or got updated and sends out pingbacks to the remote websites. Setup ===== -Insert your feed URL in the ``feeds`` database table. +Add your feed URL:: + + $ ./bin/stapibas feed add http://example.org/feed.atom Whenever you update your website, tell stapibas about it via a -HTTP POST request:: +HTTP POST request, sending the feed URL:: + + $ curl -d url=http://example.org/feed.atom http://stapibas.example.org/request-feed-update.php - $ curl -d url=http://example.org/feed/ http://stapibas.example.org/request-feed-update.php +This tells stapibas to check this feed the next time the pinger runs. Run the pinger