Install FreshRSS RSS Aggregator on Linux
21#FreshRSS #RSS #Linux
Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0586.html
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What is FreshRSS?
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FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS feed aggregator like Leed or Kriss Feed. It is lightweight, easy to work with, powerful, and customizable. It is a multi-user application with an anonymous reading mode. It supports custom tags. There is an API for (mobile) clients, and a Command-Line Interface. - https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS
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Installation
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01. Log into the Linux based device
02. Run the following commands in the terminal
# update software repositories
sudo apt update
# install available software updates
sudo apt upgrade -y
# install some dependencies
sudo apt install git apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl -y
# install Apache HTTPD and MySQL
sudo apt install apache2 mariadb-server mariadb-client -y
# install PHP components
sudo apt install php php-curl php-gmp php-intl php-pdo-mysql php-mbstring php-xml php-zip php-ctype php-dom php-fileinfo php-iconv php-json php-simplexml php-xmlreader -y
# configure the MySQL database
sudo su
mysql_secure_installation
03. Press Enter to login as root
04. Type Y and press Enter to set a root password, type the password twice to confirm
05. Type Y and press Enter to remove anonymous users
06. Type Y and press Enter to disallow root login remotely
07. Type Y and press Enter to remove the test database
08. Type Y and press Enter to reload privilege tables
09. Run the following command to login into MySQL:
mysql -u root -p
10. Authenticate with the root password set earlier
11. Run the following commands to create the FreshRSS database and database user
CREATE DATABASE freshrss DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
GRANT ALL ON freshrss.* TO 'freshrss_rw'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'Fr3shRSS!!';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
exit
12. Continue with the following commands to download and extract FreshRSS in the Apache webroot
# download freshrss
wget -O freshRSS.zip https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/archive/master.zip
# extract the zip file
unzip freshRSS.zip
# move the extracted folder to webroot
sudo mv ./FreshRSS-master /var/www/html/freshrss
# set permissions on the freshrss directory
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/freshrss
13. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/freshrss
14. Select a Language ≫ Click Submit
15. Click the Go to the next step button
16. Complete the database configuration form as follows
Type of database: MySQL
Host: localhost
Database username: freshrss_rw
Database password: Fr3shRSS!!
Database: freshrss
Table prefix:
17. Click the Go to the next step button
18. Enter a username and password ≫ Click Submit
19. Click the Complete Installation button
20. Login with the username created earlier
21. Welcome to FreshRSS
More Info: https://freshrss.org/
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