FreshRSS is a self-hosted feed reader which allows you to access your favorite websites, blogs, and other online content sources in one place.
In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps required to install FreshRSS on Windows 11.
Before we start, ensure that you have:
Firstly, go to the FreshRSS website at https://freshrss.org/ and download the latest version of FreshRSS as a ZIP file.
Once downloaded, extract the ZIP file to your web server's document root directory.
Next, create a new database for FreshRSS in your database server.
You will need to log in to your database server using a database client or command line interface.
Then, create a new database by running the following command (replacing database_name with your preferred database name):
CREATE DATABASE database_name;
You will also need to create a new database user and grant it all privileges on the new database, like so (replacing user_name and pa$$word with your preferred credentials):
CREATE USER 'user_name'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'pa$$word';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON database_name.* TO 'user_name'@'localhost';
Now that you've extracted FreshRSS and created a new database, it's time to configure it.
Navigate to the FreshRSS directory on your web server and open the config.default.php file in a text editor.
Update the following variables according to your database configuration:
$cnf['db_type'] = 'mysqli';
$cnf['db_host'] = 'localhost';
$cnf['db_user'] = 'user_name';
$cnf['db_password'] = 'pa$$word';
$cnf['db_name'] = 'database_name';
Note: Be sure to save your changes as config.php.
Ensure that your web server has the appropriate permissions to access the FreshRSS files.
For example, if you are using Apache as your web server, you can change the ownership of the FreshRSS directory to the apache user:
sudo chown -R apache:apache /path/to/freshrss
Open your web browser and navigate to your FreshRSS installation by visiting http://your-domain.com/freshrss.
Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed FreshRSS on your Windows 11 machine.
From here, you can use FreshRSS to subscribe to your favorite RSS feeds and stay up to date with the latest content from your preferred websites.
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