I checked in a super simple example site last night and cleaned up some dependencies this evening. More details on the
blog. More docs hopefully by the end of the week, but it is my hopes that this example will be able to speak quite a bit for itself.
Things to note:
Check the config/views.properties file to see how the view names map to templates
Note the difference between which objects are defined in app.context.properties and controllers.context.properties
The contents of the vendors/ directory
The bootstraps directory
If this does not work for you out of the box, please check to ensure that .htaccess files are allowing the mod_rewrite rules from docroot/.htaccess to run properly. If it looks like it is actually a problem with Halo, please let me know the details of your environment and any error messages you might get either rendered to the browser (in fact, just send the raw HTML source if you can) or the output from whatever error_log's you can find.