Apache Roller is a Java-based, full-featured, multi-user and group-blog server suitable for blog sites large and small. Roller is typically run with Apache Tomcat and MySQL. Roller is made up of the following Maven projects:

• roller-project: Top level project
• app: Roller Weblogger webapp, JSP pages, Velocity templates
• assembly-release: Used to create official distributions of Roller
• docs: Roller documentation in ODT format
• it-selenium: Integrated browser tests for Roller using Selenium

The Roller Install, User and Template Guides are available in ODT format (for OpenOffice or LibraOffice):

• https://github.com/apache/roller/tree/master/docs

Hit the Roller Confluence wiki:

• How to build and run Roller: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/EM4
• How to contribute to Roller: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/2hsB
• How to make a release of Roller: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/gycB
• Other developer resources: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/D84

Assuming you've got a UNIX shell, Java, Maven and Git:

Get the code:

$ git clone https://github.com/apache/roller.git

Build and test the code:

$ cd roller
$ mvn clean install

Run Roller in Jetty with Derby database:

$ cd app
$ mvn jetty:run

Browse to http://localhost:8080/roller