Comment by XCSme

I also created something similar in PHP + Apache rewrites.

I already had a PHP website, and I wanted to add a simple blog system to it, but most suggestions were complex systems that required installation.

I created a .htaccess file and some PHP files to load and display markdown files from the /posts folder.

It doesn't require installation (just copy-paste the files and you have a blog), and no database (posts are simply the markdown files).

https://github.com/Cristy94/markdown-blog