Readflow is a self-hosted RSS reader that allows you to subscribe to feeds, organize them, and read them in an easy-to-use interface. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Readflow on MXLinux Latest.
Before you begin, make sure you have the following:
Before we can install Readflow, we need to make sure all the required dependencies are installed on our MXLinux Latest server. Open the terminal and run the following commands:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install curl git mysql-server php php-curl php-mysql php-xml php-zip
Composer is a dependency manager for PHP. We need to install Composer on our server to manage the dependencies required by Readflow. Run the following command to download and install Composer:
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
Next, we need to clone the Readflow repository from GitHub to our server. Navigate to the web root directory of your server and run the following command:
cd /var/www/html
sudo git clone https://github.com/Alkarex/Readflow.git
This will create a new directory called Readflow in the web root directory of your server.
Navigate to the Readflow directory and run the following command to install the dependencies:
cd Readflow
sudo composer install --no-dev
This will download and install all the required dependencies for Readflow.
Next, we need to create a configuration file for Readflow. Copy the example configuration file using the following command:
sudo cp .env.example .env
Open the .env file in a text editor and modify the following settings:
APP_URL=http://yourdomain.com
DB_DATABASE=readflow
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=your_password
Replace http://yourdomain.com with the URL of your website, readflow with the name of the MySQL database that you want to use, root with the MySQL username, and your_password with the password for the MySQL user.
Save and close the file.
Finally, we need to configure the web server to serve the Readflow application. Depending on the web server you are using, the configuration may differ.
Create a new Apache virtual host configuration file:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/readflow.conf
Add the following content to the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName yourdomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/Readflow/public
<Directory /var/www/html/Readflow>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/readflow_error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/readflow_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Replace yourdomain.com with your domain name or subdomain.
Save and close the file.
Enable the new virtual host and restart Apache:
sudo a2ensite readflow.conf
sudo service apache2 restart
Create a new Nginx server block configuration file:
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/readflow
Add the following content to the file:
server {
listen 80;
server_name yourdomain.com;
root /var/www/html/Readflow/public;
index index.php;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
error_log /var/log/nginx/readflow_error.log;
access_log /var/log/nginx/readflow_access.log;
}
Replace yourdomain.com with your domain name or subdomain.
Save and close the file.
Enable the new server block and restart Nginx:
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/readflow /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
sudo service nginx restart
Before we can access Readflow, we need to create the MySQL database and run the migrations to create the required tables.
Log in to the MySQL shell:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Enter the MySQL root password when prompted.
Create a new database and grant privileges to the MySQL user:
CREATE DATABASE readflow;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON readflow.* TO 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit
Replace readflow with the name of the database you specified in the .env file, root with the MySQL username, and your_password with the password for the MySQL user.
Back in the terminal, navigate to the Readflow directory and run the following command to run the database migrations:
cd /var/www/html/Readflow
sudo php artisan migrate
You can now access Readflow by visiting your domain name or subdomain in your web browser. Create a new account and start adding RSS feeds to your reader!
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Readflow on MXLinux Latest, configure the web server, create the database, and access the application. You can now enjoy the benefits of a self-hosted RSS reader on your server.
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