Moonglade Blog

Moonglade is a personal blogging platform optimized for deployment on Microsoft Azure. It is designed with developers in mind, offering essential blogging features such as posts, comments, categories, archives, tags, and pages.

📦 Deployment Notice

• Stable Code: Always use the stable code from the Release branch instead of the master branch.

• Security: Enable HTTPS and HTTP/2 on your web server for enhanced security and performance.

• Deployment Options: While Azure is recommended, Moonglade Blog can also be deployed on other cloud providers or on-premises environments.

Full Deploy on Azure

This is the way https://edi.wang is deployed, by taking advantage of as many Azure services as possible, the blog can run very fast and secure. There is no automated script to deploy it, you need to manually create all the resources.

Quick Deploy on Azure (App Service on Linux)

Use automated deployment script to get your Moonglade up and running in 10 minutes with minimal Azure components, follow instructions here

🐵 Development

Tools	Alternative
Visual Studio 2022	Visual Studio Code with .NET 8.0 SDK
SQL Server 2022	SQL Server LocalDB, PostgreSQL or MySQL

Setup Database

Free version of SQL Server Express would be sufficient for production use.

Database	appsettings.json/ConnectionStrings/MoongladeDatabase Example
Microsoft SQL Server	Server=(local);Database=moonglade;Trusted_Connection=True;
MySQL	Server=localhost;Port=3306;Database=moonglade;Uid=root;Pwd=***;
PostgreSQL	User ID=***;Password=***;Host=localhost;Port=5432;Database=moonglade;Pooling=true;

Build Source

Build and run ./src/Moonglade.sln

• Home page: https://localhost:17251
• Admin: https://localhost:17251/admin
  • Default username: admin
  • Default password: admin123

⚙ Configuration

This section is for appsettings.json. For other blog settings, please use "/admin/settings" UI.

Authentication

Moonglade is using local account by default, you can manage accounts in /admin/settings/account. You can also use Microsoft Entra ID to login. See Wiki document for setup Microsoft Entra ID.

Image Storage

ImageStorage controls how blog post images are stored.

Azure Blob Storage (Preferred)

You need to create an Azure Blob Storage with container level permission.

{
  "Provider": "azurestorage"
  "AzureStorageSettings": {
    "ConnectionString": "YOUR CONNECTION STRING",
    "ContainerName": "YOUR CONTAINER NAME"
  }
}

When configured the image storage to use Azure Blob, you can take advantage of CDN for your image resources. Just enable CDN in admin settings, the blog will get images from CDN.

Minio Blob Storage

You need to hava an Minio Server.

"Provider": "miniostorage"
"MinioStorageSettings": {
  "EndPoint": "Minio Server Endpoint(eg:localhost:9600)",
  "AccessKey": "Your Access Key",
  "SecretKey": "Your Secret Key",
  "BucketName": "Your BucketName",
  "WithSSL": false
}

File System (Not Recommended)

You can also choose File System for image storage if you don't have a cloud option.

Windows Deployment Example:

{
  "Provider": "filesystem",
  "FileSystemPath": "C:\\UploadedImages"
}

Linux Deployment Example:

{
  "Provider": "filesystem",
  "FileSystemPath": "/var/UploadedImages"
}

Comment Moderator

Setup Moonglade.ContentSecurity Azure Function to enable comment moderation.

"ContentModerator": {
  "Provider": "",
  "ApiEndpoint": "",
  "ApiKey": ""
}

Email Notification

Setup Moonglade.Email Azure Function to enable email notification for new comments, new replies, webmentions and pingbacks. Then enable notification in admin portal.

"Email": {
  "ApiEndpoint": "",
  "ApiKey": ""
}

Others

• System Settings
• Security HTTP Headers

🎉 Protocols or Standards

Name	Feature	Status	Service Endpoint
RSS	Subscription	Supported	/rss
Atom	Subscription	Supported	/atom
OPML	Subscription	Supported	/opml
Open Search	Search	Supported	/opensearch
Pingback	Social	Supported	/pingback
Webmention	Social	Supported	/webmention
Reader View	Reader mode	Supported	N/A
FOAF	Social	Supported	/foaf.xml
IndexNow	SEO	Supported	N/A
RSD	Service Discovery	Deprecated	N/A
MetaWeblog	Blogging	Deprecated	N/A
Dublin Core Metadata	SEO	Basic Support	N/A
BlogML	Blogging	Not planned
APML	Social	Not planned
Trackback	Social	Not planned

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