Moonmoon is a web-based RSS aggregator that lets you aggregate your favorite blogs, websites, and news feeds. It's open-source software that can be installed on Linux Mint in a few easy steps. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Moonmoon on Linux Mint Latest.
Before proceeding, make sure you have the following prerequisites:
Moonmoon requires an Apache web server to run. To install Apache, open a terminal and run the following command:
sudo apt-get install apache2
Moonmoon also requires PHP to run. To install PHP, run the following command:
sudo apt-get install php libapache2-mod-php
Moonmoon requires a MySQL database to store its data. To install MySQL, run the following command:
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
During the installation process, you will be asked to create a root password for the MySQL server. Make sure to choose a strong password and remember it.
Next, we need to download and install Moonmoon. To download Moonmoon, run the following command:
sudo wget https://moonmoon.org/releases/moonmoon-0.8.2.tar.gz
Once the download is complete, extract the archive using the following command:
sudo tar -xvf moonmoon-0.8.2.tar.gz
Now, move the extracted files to your web server's root directory:
sudo mv moonmoon/* /var/www/html/
To configure Moonmoon, we need to create a new MySQL database and user for Moonmoon.
First, log in to the MySQL shell as the root user:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Enter the root password you created in Step 3 when prompted.
Next, create a new database for Moonmoon:
CREATE DATABASE moonmoon;
Create a new user and grant it privileges to the new database:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON moonmoon.* TO 'moon_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'moon_password';
Replace moon_user
and moon_password
with your preferred username and password.
Exit the MySQL shell:
quit
To configure Moonmoon, open the config.php
file in a text editor:
sudo nano /var/www/html/config.php
In this file, set the database name, username, and password you just created:
$db['name'] = 'moonmoon';
$db['user'] = 'moon_user';
$db['password'] = 'moon_password';
To test Moonmoon, open a web browser and navigate to:
http://localhost/
You should see the Moonmoon interface.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Moonmoon on Linux Mint Latest. We hope this tutorial was helpful. If you have any questions or feedback, please leave a comment below.
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