RSS-Bridge is a free and open-source software that allows you to generate an RSS feed for any website that does not provide one. It can be installed on different platforms, and in this tutorial, we're going to show you how to install RSS-Bridge on EndeavourOS Latest.
Before downloading and installing RSS-Bridge, you need to install the required dependencies. Run the following command to update the package list and install the required packages.
sudo pacman -Syy && sudo pacman -S git php php-fpm php-curl curl
After installing the dependencies, you can download RSS-Bridge from the GitHub repository using the git command, as below:
sudo git clone https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge.git /var/www/html/rss-bridge
Once the download is complete, change the ownership of the rss-bridge directory to the webserver user so that the webserver can access it. Run the command as below:
sudo chown -R http /var/www/html/rss-bridge/
Next, create a new configuration file for PHP named php-rss-bridge.ini in the /etc/php/conf.d/ directory and add the following code:
nano /etc/php/conf.d/php-rss-bridge.ini
cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0
Save the file and exit the editor.
Now, restart the PHP-fpm service to apply the new configuration by running the following command:
sudo systemctl restart php-fpm.service
The next step is to configure the webserver to serve the RSS-Bridge files. For this tutorial, we're going to use Nginx as our webserver. If you use Apache, the configurations may differ.
Create a new Nginx server block configuration file for RSS-Bridge as follows:
sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/rss-bridge.conf
And add the following configuration block:
server {
listen 80;
server_name rss.yourdomain.com; #change to your domain name
root /var/www/html/rss-bridge/;
index index.php;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
In this configuration, we've defined a server block that listens on port 80, and it is accessible via the rss.yourdomain.com domain name. Replace this domain name with your own.
Next, restart the Nginx service to apply the new configuration as follows:
sudo systemctl restart nginx.service
You can now test the installation by opening a web browser and navigating to the RSS-Bridge web address via the domain name or IP address.
http://rss.yourdomain.com/
If everything is set up correctly, you should see the RSS-Bridge homepage with various bridges that you can use to generate the RSS feeds.
In this tutorial, we have explained how to install RSS-Bridge on EndeavourOS latest distribution. By following the steps above, you can now generate RSS feeds for any website that doesn't provide one. Happy feeds!
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