How to Install Kriss Feed on OpenBSD

Kriss Feed is an RSS reader that makes it easy to organize and read your favorite news articles from multiple sources. This tutorial will guide you through the installation of Kriss Feed on OpenBSD.

Step 1: Install Required Packages

Before you can install Kriss Feed, you need to install some required packages:

$ sudo pkg_add php php-gd php-pdo_sqlite

Step 2: Download and Extract Kriss Feed

1. Go to the Kriss Feed repository on Github at https://github.com/tontof/kriss_feed.
2. Click on the "Download" button and select "Download ZIP".
3. Extract the ZIP file to a directory of your choice.

Step 3: Move Kriss Feed Files to Web Server Directory

1. Navigate to the directory where you extracted Kriss Feed.
2. Move all the files to your web server's root directory:

$ sudo mv * /var/www/htdocs/

Step 4: Set Permissions

1. Change ownership of the Kriss Feed directory to the web server user www:

$ sudo chown -R www /var/www/htdocs

2. Give write permissions to the cache directory:

$ sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www/htdocs/cache

Step 5: Configure Kriss Feed

1. Rename the file config-dist.php to config.php:

$ cp config-dist.php config.php

2. Edit the config.php file to add your RSS feed URLs and other settings:

<?php 
// path to your feeds file (containing URLs of your RSS feeds).
define('FILE_FEEDS', 'data/feeds.ini');
...

Step 6: Create Feeds File

1. Navigate to the data directory:

$ cd /var/www/htdocs/data

2. Create a new text file named feeds.ini.

$ touch feeds.ini

3. Edit the feeds.ini file and add your RSS feeds, one URL per line:

[news]
url = https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml
...

Step 7: Access Kriss Feed

1. Open your browser and go to http://localhost/ or the URL of your OpenBSD server.
2. You should see the Kriss Feed login page. Use the default username admin and password 123456 to login.
3. Once logged in, you will see your feeds and can start reading articles.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured Kriss Feed on OpenBSD.

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