Installing Leed on Manjaro

Leed is an RSS reader application that allows you to read your favorite websites' updates in one place. It is hosted on Github, and you can download it from https://github.com/LeedRSS/Leed. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Leed on Manjaro.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, ensure that you have the following prerequisites:

• A running installation of Manjaro Linux
• A web server (Apache or Nginx)
• PHP 7.1 or higher
• MySQL or MariaDB

Step 1: Downloading Leed

To begin, we will download the Leed source code from Github. Open a terminal window and run the following command:

git clone https://github.com/LeedRSS/Leed.git

This command will download the Leed source code to your home directory.

Step 2: Configuring the Web Server

Next, we will configure our web server to host the Leed application. In this tutorial, we will be using Apache as our web server.

Apache Configuration

Create a new Apache configuration file for your Leed installation:

sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/leed.conf

Add the following content to the file and save it:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName your_domain.com
    DocumentRoot /path/to/leed
    <Directory /path/to/leed>
        DirectoryIndex index.php
        Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
    ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/leed_error.log
    CustomLog /var/log/httpd/leed_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Replace your_domain.com with your actual domain name and /path/to/leed with your Leed installation path.

Finally, restart the Apache web server:

sudo systemctl restart httpd

Step 3: Creating a Database

To store the Leed data, we need to create a new MySQL database. Log in to the MySQL server as the root user:

mysql -u root -p

Create a new database:

CREATE DATABASE leed;

Create a new database user and grant the necessary privileges:

CREATE USER 'leeduser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON leed.* TO 'leeduser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Replace your_password with your desired password.

Exit the MySQL shell:

exit

Step 4: Configuring Leed

Next, we need to configure Leed to use the MySQL database.

Copy the config.default.php file to config.php:

cd Leed
cp config.default.php config.php

Edit the config.php file and replace the following lines with the database credentials:

define('MYSQL_SERVER', 'localhost');
define('MYSQL_USER', 'leeduser');
define('MYSQL_PASS', 'your_password');
define('MYSQL_DATABASE', 'leed');

Save and close the file.

Step 5: Installing Leed

With all the required configurations done, we can now install Leed.

Open a web browser and navigate to your configured domain name, e.g., https://your_domain.com. You should see the Leed installation page.

Enter a username and password for your Leed admin user and click on the "Install" button.

Once the installation is complete, you should see a "Login" button. Click on it and log in to the Leed admin dashboard.

Conclusion

Congratulations, you have successfully installed Leed on your Manjaro Linux machine. You can now start adding RSS feeds and reading your favorite websites' updates in one place.

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