How to use a skeleton?

I have had been in love with MySQL for about 20 years, so I'm not sure "shackled" has a negative connotation. I do agree that a small site does not need a DB.

BTW - admin docs are up: http://learn.getgrav.org/grav-admin

I installed admin, ran the bin/grav newuser command, but www.example.com/admin gives a 404.

Do I need to add a Nginx rule? In drupal everything gets rewritten to index.php

No rules, Grav uses actual files instead of routes.

There's no admin dir and no nginx rule to redirect

Admin is a plug-in under the user/plugins folder.

From http://getgrav.org/blog/beta-admin-plugin-available : By default you can access the admin by pointing your browser to http://yoursite.com/admin.

This is incorrect.

No, I think that's right. At least that's how mine works. I don't know what's up with the 404.

https://www.example.com/user/plugins/admin/admin.php gives me a white screen

I think it should work as just www.example.com/admin.

It works about as well as the css on the striped theme

27 rewrite ^/user/(.*).(txt|md|html|php|yaml|json|twig|sh|bat)$ /error redirect;

So anything under /user gets rewritten. Seems absolutely backwards.

Perhaps backwards for Drupal, but maybe not Grav.

Backwards for common sense.

Goodnight...

[02-Sep-2015 01:01:48] WARNING: [pool www0] child 17909 said into stderr: "NOTICE: PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Class 'Grav\Common\Plugin' not found in /var/www/html/jaz2.sendthemtomir.com/user/plugins/admin/admin.php on line 15"

You still need to get your routing working:

https://jaz2.sendthemtomir.com/blog/sunshine-in-the-hills

for example is 404 because its not routing properly. There is a sample nginx.conf in the root, but I have used this simpler one with success in my nginx testing on my raspberry pi:

server {
        #listen 80 default_server;
        index index.html index.php;
        root /home/pi/www/blog;

        server_name localhost;

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
                if (!-e $request_filename){ rewrite ^(.*)$ /index.php last; }
        }

        location ~ \.php$ { 
                fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
                fastcgi_index index.php;
                include fastcgi_params;
                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root/$fastcgi_script_name;
        }
}

I use pi's for Runeaudio, Kodi, and Octoprint.

Let's keep this on the forum ok.. i can't reply to both here and the blog comments :)