How to Install Moonmoon on Void Linux

Moonmoon is a simple feed aggregator that allows you to easily create your very own self-hosted planet-like website using RSS or Atom feeds. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the setup process of Moonmoon on your Void Linux machine.

Prerequisites

Before we start, make sure that you have the following installed on your machine:

• Void Linux
• Apache web server
• PHP 5 or greater
• Git

Step 1: Install Dependencies

First, let's make sure that all the necessary dependencies are installed on your machine. Open up the terminal and run the following commands:

sudo xbps-install -S php
sudo xbps-install -S php-mbstring
sudo xbps-install -S php-xml
sudo xbps-install -S git 

Step 2: Download Moonmoon

Next, we need to download the latest version of Moonmoon from the official website. To do so, run the following command:

git clone https://github.com/maurice/moonmoon.git

Step 3: Configure Moonmoon

Once the download is complete, navigate into the newly-created moonmoon directory and copy the sample configuration file:

cd moonmoon
cp moonmoon.ini.sample moonmoon.ini

Next, open up the moonmoon.ini file in your preferred text editor and update the following settings:

• face – the title of your Moonmoon site
• skin – the name of the directory where your custom CSS and images are located (if you have any)
• langs – a comma-separated list of languages that your site should support

Step 4: Set up Apache

We now need to configure Apache to serve content from the moonmoon directory. To do this, create a new virtual host file by running:

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

And paste the following contents into the file:

<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName moonmoon.yourdomain.com
   DocumentRoot /var/www/moonmoon/
   <Directory "/var/www/moonmoon/">
      AllowOverride All
      Order Allow,Deny
      Allow from all
   </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Make sure to replace moonmoon.yourdomain.com with your own domain name.

Step 5: Restart Apache

Finally, we need to restart the Apache service for the changes to take effect:

sudo service httpd restart

Step 6: Access Moonmoon

Your Moonmoon site should now be accessible at http://moonmoon.yourdomain.com. Try adding some feeds to the feeds.txt file in the moonmoon directory to see if everything is working properly.

Congratulations, you have successfully installed Moonmoon on Void Linux!

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