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Have you checked out Blojsom (Java based) or Bloxsom (Perl based). I had similar requirements to you a year or so back and either one of those hit the spot quite nicely.

Here's a better link to the actual project, not Rael's personal blog: Bloxsom

And, last time I checked, Bloxsom was written in Perl, not PHP, although there is a PHP implementation (IIRC).

One nice feature of Bloxsom is that it doesn't use a database back end. It uses the directory structure, and blog entries are merely text files placed in the appropriate directory (or folder, if you're using the Mac paradigm). The top line of the text file is the headline, all that follows is the entry.

Another nice thing about bloxsom is that while a base installation is very simple and barebones, it has a plug-in architecture, making it very customizable and extensible.

All in all, bloxsom is great for someone like me with just a little technical proficiency. I've set it up several times and played with it, but I never kept up with updating. I just don't have a need to share my every thought and experience with the world and I'm lazy.

However, I'm setting something up for a company with which I'm associated, and I'm considering using it for their News section. We might be setting up an OS X server, so we might even use blojsom, the Java port of bloxsom.

But how would he explain the existence of Thunderbird?

Eric
Read one of the best AdSense blogs around (runs on blojsom)

The next release of Mac OS X Server (10.4) will have the Blojsom blogging system built in although I'm not sure how heavily they'll promote that.

Also, I believe that there's a feature for .Mac called iBlog that lets you blog to your .Mac account, although I've not used it.

Tiger's server version is going to include Blojsom which is a Blosxom workalike written in Java. It is entirely possible at some point .Mac will include a blog service based on Blojsom. I think it would be a good addition to the .Mac package because to me it seems like a natural extension of simply having a website. It'd be cool to be able to just write an entry in TextEdit, save it to your iDisk, and voilà you've got a new post to your blog.

They are missing SnipSnap, an fantastically easy to install java GPLd blog/wiki server. Try it out at snipsnap.org.

• Uses the file system (folders and files) as its content database. blojsom can support any backend storage mechanism through a specific implementation of the BlojsomFetcher interface.
• Allows you to configure the file types that blojsom treats as blog entries (defaults to .txt and .html).
• Permalinks which point to individual blog entries.
• Calendar-based (i.e. year, year/month, year/month/day) navigation of your blog.
• Configurable set of blog directories (per flavor) that get aggregated for the default or / category.
• Customizable flavors. blojsom, out of the box can generate html, rss, rss2, rdf, atom, and text flavors.
• Configurable comment and trackback support for users to leave comments and trackbacks on blog entries.
• Plugin support so that you extend the capabilities of blojsom.
• Web-based Administration for blog functionality such as editing blog properties, categories, and templates.
• Remote posting via XML-RPC and the Atom API. Support for Blogger API, MetaWeblog API, and Atom API.
• Customizable template mechanism. blojsom is very powerful in this area in that you as a developer are allowed to decide what display technology is appropriate for the requested flavor. blojsom currently offers a JSP Dispatcher and a Velocity Dispatcher and .jsp and .vm templates are provided for the HTML and RSS flavors.
  • This allows you to mix-and-match display technologies for your blog. For example, you might want to render HTML through the JSP for that flavor while you might want to render RSS through Velocity for that flavor.
  • Have another display technology youd like to use? Simply extend the BlojsomDispatcher interface and configure a mapping file so that blojsom knows how to map the template extension to the proper dispatcher. Thats it!
• Themes allow you to select a new look for your blog.
• Multi-user support with a single blojsom installation. Multi-user options specific to each user include:
  • Authorization properties for users who can post to an individual blog via XML-RPC.
  • All the blog properties such as blog directory, description, owner, default category mappings, etc.
  • Supported flavors.
  • Flavor-based plugin chains.
  • All the individual plugin configuration files are separate per-user.

• Uses the file system (folders and files) as its content database. blojsom can support any backend storage mechanism through a specific implementation of the BlojsomFetcher interface.
• Allows you to configure the file types that blojsom treats as blog entries (defaults to .txt and .html).
• Permalinks which point to individual blog entries.
• Calendar-based (i.e. year, year/month, year/month/day) navigation of your blog.
• Configurable set of blog directories (per flavor) that get aggregated for the default or / category.
• Customizable flavors. blojsom, out of the box can generate html, rss, rss2, rdf, atom, and text flavors.
• Configurable comment and trackback support for users to leave comments and trackbacks on blog entries.
• Plugin support so that you extend the capabilities of blojsom.
• Web-based Administration for blog functionality such as editing blog properties, categories, and templates.
• Remote posting via XML-RPC and the Atom API. Support for Blogger API, MetaWeblog API, and Atom API.
• Customizable template mechanism. blojsom is very powerful in this area in that you as a developer are allowed to decide what display technology is appropriate for the requested flavor. blojsom currently offers a JSP Dispatcher and a Velocity Dispatcher and .jsp and .vm templates are provided for the HTML and RSS flavors.
  • This allows you to mix-and-match display technologies for your blog. For example, you might want to render HTML through the JSP for that flavor while you might want to render RSS through Velocity for that flavor.
  • Have another display technology youd like to use? Simply extend the BlojsomDispatcher interface and configure a mapping file so that blojsom knows how to map the template extension to the proper dispatcher. Thats it!
• Themes allow you to select a new look for your blog.
• Multi-user support with a single blojsom installation. Multi-user options specific to each user include:
  • Authorization properties for users who can post to an individual blog via XML-RPC.
  • All the blog properties such as blog directory, description, owner, default category mappings, etc.
  • Supported flavors.
  • Flavor-based plugin chains.
  • All the individual plugin configuration files are separate per-user.

• Uses the file system (folders and files) as its content database. blojsom can support any backend storage mechanism through a specific implementation of the BlojsomFetcher interface.
• Allows you to configure the file types that blojsom treats as blog entries (defaults to .txt and .html).
• Permalinks which point to individual blog entries.
• Calendar-based (i.e. year, year/month, year/month/day) navigation of your blog.
• Configurable set of blog directories (per flavor) that get aggregated for the default or / category.
• Customizable flavors. blojsom, out of the box can generate html, rss, rss2, rdf, atom, and text flavors.
• Configurable comment and trackback support for users to leave comments and trackbacks on blog entries.
• Plugin support so that you extend the capabilities of blojsom.
• Web-based Administration for blog functionality such as editing blog properties, categories, and templates.
• Remote posting via XML-RPC and the Atom API. Support for Blogger API, MetaWeblog API, and Atom API.
• Customizable template mechanism. blojsom is very powerful in this area in that you as a developer are allowed to decide what display technology is appropriate for the requested flavor. blojsom currently offers a JSP Dispatcher and a Velocity Dispatcher and .jsp and .vm templates are provided for the HTML and RSS flavors.
  • This allows you to mix-and-match display technologies for your blog. For example, you might want to render HTML through the JSP for that flavor while you might want to render RSS through Velocity for that flavor.
  • Have another display technology youd like to use? Simply extend the BlojsomDispatcher interface and configure a mapping file so that blojsom knows how to map the template extension to the proper dispatcher. Thats it!
• Themes allow you to select a new look for your blog.
• Multi-user support with a single blojsom installation. Multi-user options specific to each user include:
  • Authorization properties for users who can post to an individual blog via XML-RPC.
  • All the blog properties such as blog directory, description, owner, default category mappings, etc.
  • Supported flavors.
  • Flavor-based plugin chains.
  • All the individual plugin configuration files are separate per-user.

• Uses the file system (folders and files) as its content database. blojsom can support any backend storage mechanism through a specific implementation of the BlojsomFetcher interface.
• Allows you to configure the file types that blojsom treats as blog entries (defaults to .txt and .html).
• Permalinks which point to individual blog entries.
• Calendar-based (i.e. year, year/month, year/month/day) navigation of your blog.
• Configurable set of blog directories (per flavor) that get aggregated for the default or / category.
• Customizable flavors. blojsom, out of the box can generate html, rss, rss2, rdf, atom, and text flavors.
• Configurable comment and trackback support for users to leave comments and trackbacks on blog entries.
• Plugin support so that you extend the capabilities of blojsom.
• Web-based Administration for blog functionality such as editing blog properties, categories, and templates.
• Remote posting via XML-RPC and the Atom API. Support for Blogger API, MetaWeblog API, and Atom API.
• Customizable template mechanism. blojsom is very powerful in this area in that you as a developer are allowed to decide what display technology is appropriate for the requested flavor. blojsom currently offers a JSP Dispatcher and a Velocity Dispatcher and .jsp and .vm templates are provided for the HTML and RSS flavors.
  • This allows you to mix-and-match display technologies for your blog. For example, you might want to render HTML through the JSP for that flavor while you might want to render RSS through Velocity for that flavor.
  • Have another display technology youd like to use? Simply extend the BlojsomDispatcher interface and configure a mapping file so that blojsom knows how to map the template extension to the proper dispatcher. Thats it!
• Themes allow you to select a new look for your blog.
• Multi-user support with a single blojsom installation. Multi-user options specific to each user include:
  • Authorization properties for users who can post to an individual blog via XML-RPC.
  • All the blog properties such as blog directory, description, owner, default category mappings, etc.
  • Supported flavors.
  • Flavor-based plugin chains.
  • All the individual plugin configuration files are separate per-user.

• Uses the file system (folders and files) as its content database. blojsom can support any backend storage mechanism through a specific implementation of the BlojsomFetcher interface.
• Allows you to configure the file types that blojsom treats as blog entries (defaults to .txt and .html).
• Permalinks which point to individual blog entries.
• Calendar-based (i.e. year, year/month, year/month/day) navigation of your blog.
• Configurable set of blog directories (per flavor) that get aggregated for the default or / category.
• Customizable flavors. blojsom, out of the box can generate html, rss, rss2, rdf, atom, and text flavors.
• Configurable comment and trackback support for users to leave comments and trackbacks on blog entries.
• Plugin support so that you extend the capabilities of blojsom.
• Web-based Administration for blog functionality such as editing blog properties, categories, and templates.
• Remote posting via XML-RPC and the Atom API. Support for Blogger API, MetaWeblog API, and Atom API.
• Customizable template mechanism. blojsom is very powerful in this area in that you as a developer are allowed to decide what display technology is appropriate for the requested flavor. blojsom currently offers a JSP Dispatcher and a Velocity Dispatcher and .jsp and .vm templates are provided for the HTML and RSS flavors.
  • This allows you to mix-and-match display technologies for your blog. For example, you might want to render HTML through the JSP for that flavor while you might want to render RSS through Velocity for that flavor.
  • Have another display technology youd like to use? Simply extend the BlojsomDispatcher interface and configure a mapping file so that blojsom knows how to map the template extension to the proper dispatcher. Thats it!
• Themes allow you to select a new look for your blog.
• Multi-user support with a single blojsom installation. Multi-user options specific to each user include:
  • Authorization properties for users who can post to an individual blog via XML-RPC.
  • All the blog properties such as blog directory, description, owner, default category mappings, etc.
  • Supported flavors.
  • Flavor-based plugin chains.
  • All the individual plugin configuration files are separate per-user.

• Uses the file system (folders and files) as its content database. blojsom can support any backend storage mechanism through a specific implementation of the BlojsomFetcher interface.
• Allows you to configure the file types that blojsom treats as blog entries (defaults to .txt and .html).
• Permalinks which point to individual blog entries.
• Calendar-based (i.e. year, year/month, year/month/day) navigation of your blog.
• Configurable set of blog directories (per flavor) that get aggregated for the default or / category.
• Customizable flavors. blojsom, out of the box can generate html, rss, rss2, rdf, atom, and text flavors.
• Configurable comment and trackback support for users to leave comments and trackbacks on blog entries.
• Plugin support so that you extend the capabilities of blojsom.
• Web-based Administration for blog functionality such as editing blog properties, categories, and templates.
• Remote posting via XML-RPC and the Atom API. Support for Blogger API, MetaWeblog API, and Atom API.
• Customizable template mechanism. blojsom is very powerful in this area in that you as a developer are allowed to decide what display technology is appropriate for the requested flavor. blojsom currently offers a JSP Dispatcher and a Velocity Dispatcher and .jsp and .vm templates are provided for the HTML and RSS flavors.
  • This allows you to mix-and-match display technologies for your blog. For example, you might want to render HTML through the JSP for that flavor while you might want to render RSS through Velocity for that flavor.
  • Have another display technology youd like to use? Simply extend the BlojsomDispatcher interface and configure a mapping file so that blojsom knows how to map the template extension to the proper dispatcher. Thats it!
• Themes allow you to select a new look for your blog.
• Multi-user support with a single blojsom installation. Multi-user options specific to each user include:
  • Authorization properties for users who can post to an individual blog via XML-RPC.
  • All the blog properties such as blog directory, description, owner, default category mappings, etc.
  • Supported flavors.
  • Flavor-based plugin chains.
  • All the individual plugin configuration files are separate per-user.

• Uses the file system (folders and files) as its content database. blojsom can support any backend storage mechanism through a specific implementation of the BlojsomFetcher interface.
• Allows you to configure the file types that blojsom treats as blog entries (defaults to .txt and .html).
• Permalinks which point to individual blog entries.
• Calendar-based (i.e. year, year/month, year/month/day) navigation of your blog.
• Configurable set of blog directories (per flavor) that get aggregated for the default or / category.
• Customizable flavors. blojsom, out of the box can generate html, rss, rss2, rdf, atom, and text flavors.
• Configurable comment and trackback support for users to leave comments and trackbacks on blog entries.
• Plugin support so that you extend the capabilities of blojsom.
• Web-based Administration for blog functionality such as editing blog properties, categories, and templates.
• Remote posting via XML-RPC and the Atom API. Support for Blogger API, MetaWeblog API, and Atom API.
• Customizable template mechanism. blojsom is very powerful in this area in that you as a developer are allowed to decide what display technology is appropriate for the requested flavor. blojsom currently offers a JSP Dispatcher and a Velocity Dispatcher and .jsp and .vm templates are provided for the HTML and RSS flavors.
  • This allows you to mix-and-match display technologies for your blog. For example, you might want to render HTML through the JSP for that flavor while you might want to render RSS through Velocity for that flavor.
  • Have another display technology youd like to use? Simply extend the BlojsomDispatcher interface and configure a mapping file so that blojsom knows how to map the template extension to the proper dispatcher. Thats it!
• Themes allow you to select a new look for your blog.
• Multi-user support with a single blojsom installation. Multi-user options specific to each user include:
  • Authorization properties for users who can post to an individual blog via XML-RPC.
  • All the blog properties such as blog directory, description, owner, default category mappings, etc.
  • Supported flavors.
  • Flavor-based plugin chains.
  • All the individual plugin configuration files are separate per-user.

• Uses the file system (folders and files) as its content database. blojsom can support any backend storage mechanism through a specific implementation of the BlojsomFetcher interface.
• Allows you to configure the file types that blojsom treats as blog entries (defaults to .txt and .html).
• Permalinks which point to individual blog entries.
• Calendar-based (i.e. year, year/month, year/month/day) navigation of your blog.
• Configurable set of blog directories (per flavor) that get aggregated for the default or / category.
• Customizable flavors. blojsom, out of the box can generate html, rss, rss2, rdf, atom, and text flavors.
• Configurable comment and trackback support for users to leave comments and trackbacks on blog entries.
• Plugin support so that you extend the capabilities of blojsom.
• Web-based Administration for blog functionality such as editing blog properties, categories, and templates.
• Remote posting via XML-RPC and the Atom API. Support for Blogger API, MetaWeblog API, and Atom API.
• Customizable template mechanism. blojsom is very powerful in this area in that you as a developer are allowed to decide what display technology is appropriate for the requested flavor. blojsom currently offers a JSP Dispatcher and a Velocity Dispatcher and .jsp and .vm templates are provided for the HTML and RSS flavors.
  • This allows you to mix-and-match display technologies for your blog. For example, you might want to render HTML through the JSP for that flavor while you might want to render RSS through Velocity for that flavor.
  • Have another display technology youd like to use? Simply extend the BlojsomDispatcher interface and configure a mapping file so that blojsom knows how to map the template extension to the proper dispatcher. Thats it!
• Themes allow you to select a new look for your blog.
• Multi-user support with a single blojsom installation. Multi-user options specific to each user include:
  • Authorization properties for users who can post to an individual blog via XML-RPC.
  • All the blog properties such as blog directory, description, owner, default category mappings, etc.
  • Supported flavors.
  • Flavor-based plugin chains.
  • All the individual plugin configuration files are separate per-user.