Adding commments to my static web site with hashover

By goz

One of my biggest issues with running a static website is that having comments on posts isn’t very straightforward. Thanks to Jeff MacKinnon I found out about Hashover.

Setting it up

The set up was pretty straightforward, the hiccups I had are listed in the following notes. Once I had it set up on the server, I added the lines to my Hugo set up and I now have comments!

Notes on installing hashover

  • To switch to sql from of the use of XML files, set data-format in hashover/config/settings.json to sql. I’m using sqlite to store the comments.
  • I run comments from another domain, so I had to set two different settings in hashover/config/settings.json:
    • "allowed-domains": [ "www.gozgeek.com" ],
    • "domain": "gozgeek.com",
  • Remember to restart Apache after you install the required PHP modules. 😎