Install

Hitchhike installation

The installation of hitchhike is flawlessly easy. You will need git for updates and composer to manage the third party libraries. A usage without composer is not planned.

Attention: Make sure your the permissions of the folder are correct, e. g. the webserver process can create files.

Before installing, check if your environment meets the requirements.

Get the sourcecode

git clone https://github.com/gethitchhike/hitchhike.git
cd hitchhike/

Install libraries & init your blog

Hitchhike will automatically update dependencies and needed units. Also, your blog will be initalized with a default configuration.

chmod +x ./hm.php
./hm.php init

Congratulations! Hitchhike is installed!

Use Hitchhike

Edit content/blog.json for your needs.

Secure your data

Depending on your webserver, secure the ./content/ folder with preventing direct file access from outside.