Kriss Feed is a simple and lightweight RSS feed aggregator that can help you to stay up-to-date with your favorite websites. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation process of Kriss Feed on POP! OS Latest.
Before starting the installation process, you need to make sure that you have the following prerequisites installed on your system:
If you haven't installed Apache webserver already, you can install it by running the following command in your terminal:
sudo apt install apache2
After installing the web server, you can verify the Apache service by running the command below:
systemctl status apache2
Next, we need to install PHP and all necessary modules that Kriss Feed requires. To install PHP and modules, run the following command:
sudo apt install php php-curl php-mbstring php-mysql php-zip
Kriss Feed requires a MySQL server to store articles and feed data. To install MySQL server, run the following command:
sudo apt install mysql-server
During the installation process, you will be prompted to set the root password for MySQL. Set the password and remember it as we will need it later.
Next, we are going to secure the MySQL installation by running the following command:
mysql_secure_installation
Answer the questions to secure your installation.
Now, we need to create a MySQL database and add a user with the necessary permissions. Here are the commands to do that:
sudo mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE krissfeed;
CREATE USER 'krissfeeduser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'krissfeedpassword';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON krissfeed.* TO 'krissfeeduser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Replace 'krissfeeduser' and 'krissfeedpassword' with your preferred username and password.
Now, we need to download the Kriss Feed source code from GitHub using the following command:
cd /var/www/html
sudo git clone https://github.com/tontof/kriss_feed.git
After downloading the source code, we need to configure the Kriss Feed application. Copy the sample configuration file using the following command:
cp /var/www/html/kriss_feed/config.default.php /var/www/html/kriss_feed/config.php
Open the 'config.php' file and update the following parameters:
$config['public_url'] = 'http://your-server-ip/kriss_feed'; // Replace 'your-server-ip' with your server IP address.
$config['mysql_host'] = 'localhost';
$config['mysql_login'] = 'krissfeeduser';
$config['mysql_password'] = 'krissfeedpassword';
$config['mysql_base'] = 'krissfeed';
Save the file and exit.
Finally, we need to configure Apache to serve Kriss Feed. Edit the Apache configuration file using nano, vi or any other text editor of your choice:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
Add the following lines just before the closing 'VirtualHost' tag:
Alias /kriss_feed /var/www/html/kriss_feed/
<Directory /var/www/html/kriss_feed/>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
Save the file and exit.
Restart Apache by running the following command:
sudo systemctl restart apache2
Now, you should be able to access Kriss Feed by navigating to http://your-server-ip/kriss_feed in your web browser.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Kriss Feed on your POP! OS Latest machine.
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