The .NET blog system of edi.wang that runs on Microsoft Azure. Enabling most common blogging features including posts, comments, categories, archive, tags and pages.

It is recommended to use stable code from Release rather than master branch.

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 with only ~$300 USD/month.

This diagram shows a full Azure deployment for Moonglade for reference.

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

To quickly get it running on a new Linux machine without Docker, follow instructions here.

Create a SQL Server 2019 or LocalDB database. e.g. moonglade

Update the MoongladeDatabase with your database connection string in appsettings.Development.json

"MoongladeDatabase": "Server=(localdb)\\MSSQLLocalDB;Database=moonglade;Trusted_Connection=True;"

Build and run ./src/Moonglade.sln

• Admin entrance: /admin
• Default username: admin
• Default password: admin123

This section discuss system settings in appsettings.[env].json. For blog settings, please use "/admin/settings" UI.

For production, it is strongly recommended to use Environment Variables over appsetting.json file.

See Wiki document

Set Authentication:Provider to "Local". You can manage accounts in /admin/settings/account

AppSettings:ImageStorage controls how blog post images are stored.

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. Set GetImageByCDNRedirect to true, the blog will get images from client browser using a 302 redirect.

"CDNSettings": {
    "EnableCDNRedirect": true,
    "CDNEndpoint": "https://yourendpoint.azureedge.net/moonglade-images"
}

You can also choose File System for image storage, but this will make your site root not read-only, which would be a potential security issue. And it will be harder for you to backup or update the website.

"Provider": "filesystem",
"FileSystemSettings": {
  "Path": "${basedir}\\UploadedImages"
}

The Path can be relative or absolute. "$\{basedir\}" represents the website's current directory.

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
}

If you need email notification for new comments, new replies and pingbacks, you have to setup the Moonglade.Notification Azure Function first, and then set the values in appsettings.[env].json or in your runtime environment variables.

"Notification": {
  "Enabled": true,
  "AzureFunctionEndpoint": "{PROD-ENV-VARIABLE}"
}

• System Settings
• Security Headers (CSP, XSS, etc.)

• RSS
• Atom
• OPML
• Open Search
• Pingback
• Reader View
• APML - Not planned
• FOAF - Under triage
• BlogML - Under triage
• Trackback - Not planned
• RSD - Not planned
• MetaWeblog - Not planned

There are a few individuals already setup thier blogs using Moonglade on Azure (Global or China), Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, etc.

• Anduin Xue
• zchwei
• yycoding
• 51azure
• Zhuangkh
• HueiFeng
• Leslie Wang

Just Submit PR or issue if you want your blog to be listed here