Leed is a simple RSS feed reader written in PHP, based on frameworks such as Bootstrap and jQuery. It is a self-hosted application that you can install on your own server. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps of installing Leed on OpenSUSE Latest.
Before proceeding with this tutorial, make sure that you have the following requirements on your system:
First, let's download Leed from the GitHub repository. Use the following command to download the latest version of Leed to your server:
$ git clone https://github.com/LeedRSS/Leed.git /var/www/leed
This will download Leed to the /var/www/leed directory on your server.
Next, let's configure the Apache web server to serve the Leed application. Create a new Apache configuration file for Leed:
$ sudo nano /etc/apache2/conf.d/leed.conf
Add the following lines to the configuration file:
Alias /leed "/var/www/leed/"
<Directory "/var/www/leed/">
Options -Indexes
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
Save and close the file. Then restart Apache to apply the changes:
$ sudo systemctl restart apache2
Leed requires a database to store its data. Let's create a new database and a user for Leed in MySQL/MariaDB:
$ sudo mysql -u root -p
Enter your MySQL root password when prompted. Then create a new database and user:
CREATE DATABASE leed;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON leed.* TO 'leeduser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
Replace leeduser and password with your desired username and password.
Leed configuration is stored in the config/config.default.php file. Copy this file to config/config.php:
$ cd /var/www/leed/config/
$ cp config.default.php config.php
Edit the config.php file with your favorite text editor:
$ sudo nano config.php
Update the following lines with your server's details:
define('MYSQL_HOST', 'localhost');
define('MYSQL_LOGIN', 'leeduser');
define('MYSQL_PASSWORD', 'password');
define('MYSQL_DATABASE', 'leed');
define('APPLICATION_URL', 'http://your-server-ip/leed');
Save and close the file.
Now we are ready to run the installer. Open a web browser and go to http://your-server-ip/leed/install. The installer wizard will guide you through the installation process.
Note: If you get an error message saying that vendor/autoload.php file is missing, run composer install in the root directory of Leed to install the required dependencies:
$ cd /var/www/leed/
$ composer install
Once the installation is complete, delete the install directory:
$ sudo rm -rf /var/www/leed/install/
You are now ready to access Leed. Open a web browser and go to http://your-server-ip/leed. You will be prompted to login. Use the default credentials admin/123456 to login.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Leed on your OpenSUSE server. Enjoy reading your RSS feeds!
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