RSS-Bridge is an open-source PHP project that acts as a bridge between multiple RSS feed sources and provides a centralized and standardized API to query and fetch data in various formats, such as JSON, Atom, and RSS.
This tutorial will guide you through the steps to install RSS-Bridge on Arch Linux.
Before starting, you should have the following:
Before installing RSS-Bridge, you need to install some PHP extensions and tools required by the project.
Open your terminal and run the following command:
sudo pacman -S php php-curl php-xml curl git
This command installs PHP modules for curl and xml support, the curl command-line utility, and Git.
Next, you need to clone the RSS-Bridge repository from GitHub to your local system.
To do so, run the following command:
cd /var/www/html
sudo git clone https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge.git
This command clones the repository to a folder named rss-bridge in the /var/www/html directory, which is the Apache default document root.
After cloning the repository, you need to configure your web server to serve the RSS-Bridge files. Here, we will use Apache as an example.
Create a new virtual host configuration file for RSS-Bridge using the following command:
sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf/extra/rss-bridge.conf
Add the following configuration code to the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@yourdomain.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/rss-bridge"
ServerName yourdomain.com
ServerAlias www.yourdomain.com
<Directory "/var/www/html/rss-bridge">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd/rss-bridge-error_log"
CustomLog "/var/log/httpd/rss-bridge-access_log" common
</VirtualHost>
Replace yourdomain.com with your domain name or server IP address.
Save and exit the file.
Next, enable the new virtual host by running the following command:
sudo a2ensite rss-bridge
Finally, restart the Apache web server:
sudo systemctl restart httpd
Now that RSS-Bridge is installed and configured, you can test it by visiting its URL in a web browser.
Open your web browser and navigate to http://yourdomain.com/rss-bridge/.
You should see the RSS-Bridge homepage with a list of supported bridges.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured RSS-Bridge on Arch Linux.
Note: You can customize the bridges enabled by RSS-Bridge by modifying the bridges folder located in the repository. For more information, see the official documentation.
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