Installing Selfoss on macOS

Introduction

Selfoss is a lightweight, open-source news aggregator that allows you to manage and keep track of your favorite websites and RSS feeds. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Selfoss on macOS.

Prerequisites

• macOS operating system
• Command Line Interface (Terminal)
• Homebrew package manager

Step 1: Install Homebrew

1. Open the Terminal application.
2. Type the following command to install Homebrew:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

3. Press Return and wait for the installation to complete.

Step 2: Install PHP and required modules

1. Open the Terminal application.
2. Type the following command to install PHP and required modules:

brew install php@7.4 php@7.4-intl php@7.4-pdo-pgsql

3. Press Return and wait for the installation to complete.

Step 3: Install Selfoss

1. Open the Terminal application.
2. Type the following command to download Selfoss:

curl -LOk https://github.com/SSilence/selfoss/releases/download/2020.10/selfoss-2020.10.zip

3. Press Return and wait for the download to complete.
4. Type the following command to unzip the downloaded file:

unzip selfoss-2020.10.zip

5. Press Return and wait for the extraction to complete.

Step 4: Configure Selfoss

1. Open the Terminal application.
2. Move to the Selfoss directory by typing the following command:

cd selfoss

3. Copy the defaults.ini file to config.ini file by typing the following command:

cp defaults.ini config.ini

4. Open the config.ini file using a text editor:

nano config.ini

5. Edit the base_url value with http://localhost:8888 by typing the following command:

base_url = http://localhost:8888

6. Press Ctrl-X followed by Y and then Enter to save and exit.

Step 5: Starting Selfoss

1. Open the Terminal application.
2. Start the PHP server by typing the following command:

php -S localhost:8888

3. Press Return and wait for Selfoss to start.
4. Open your web browser and go to the following address: http://localhost:8888

Conclusion

You have successfully installed Selfoss on macOS. You can now add your favorite websites and RSS feeds to Selfoss and enjoy reading the latest news and updates in one place.

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