In this tutorial, we will show you the step-by-step process of installing Readflow on FreeBSD Latest. Readflow is a self-hosted feed reader that provides a simple and intuitive interface to read your favorite RSS and Atom feeds.
To get started with the installation, follow the steps given below:
Before installing Readflow, make sure that you have the following prerequisites installed on your FreeBSD Latest server:
First, we need to download the latest version of Readflow from its official website https://readflow.app/downloads. You can either download the tarball via a browser or directly from the command line by executing:
$ wget https://readflow.app/downloads/readflow-2.4.0.tar.gz
Next, extract the downloaded file into the Apache web root directory:
$ tar -zxvf readflow-2.4.0.tar.gz -C /usr/local/www/apache24/data/
The next step is to create a database for Readflow to store its data. You can use either MariaDB or MySQL database server for this purpose.
Log in to your database server using the following command:
$ mysql -u root -p
Once you are logged in, create a new database and user for Readflow using the following commands:
mysql> CREATE DATABASE readflow_db;
mysql> CREATE USER 'readflow_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON readflow_db.* TO 'readflow_user'@'localhost';
Make sure to replace password with a strong password for your user. Also, replace readflow_db and readflow_user with your desired database and user names respectively.
Before we can start using Readflow, we need to configure it with our database details. To do this, open the config.php file located in the Readflow installation directory with your favorite text editor:
$ vi /usr/local/www/apache24/data/readflow/config.php
Edit the following lines in the file to match your database credentials:
define("DB_TYPE", "mysql");
define("DB_HOST", "localhost");
define("DB_NAME", "readflow_db");
define("DB_USER", "readflow_user");
define("DB_PASSWORD", "password");
Once you have made the necessary changes, save the file and exit your text editor.
Before we can access Readflow in our browser, we need to make sure that the web server has the necessary permissions to read and write to the installation directory. To do this, execute the following command:
$ chown -R www:www /usr/local/www/apache24/data/readflow/
Finally, we can access Readflow by visiting the following URL in our web browser:
http://localhost/readflow/
If you have followed all the steps correctly, you should now be presented with the Readflow login page. Use the default credentials admin and admin to log in to your account. You can change this password or create new users from the settings page within Readflow.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Readflow on FreeBSD Latest. You can now start adding your favorite feeds and stay up-to-date with the latest news and updates.
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