Blog Better.
Apache Roller is a Java-based, full-featured, multi-user and group-blog server suitable for blog sites large and small.
Features
- Multi-user blogging: can support thousands of users and blogs
- Group blogging with three permission levels: owner, editor, and drafter
- Support for comment moderation and comment spam prevention measures
- Bloggers have full control over blog layout/style via Apache Velocity-driven templates
- Built-in Lucene search engine indexes weblog entry content
- Support for blog clients that support MetaWeblog API
- All blogs have entry and comment feeds in both RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 formats
- Support for SEO: web analytics tracking keys, blog-entry specific Meta description elements
Documentation
Roller's installation guide covers deployment on Tomcat using a MySQL database. Users however have reported success running Roller on other app servers and databases.