Kriss Feed is a simple and smart (or stupid) feed aggregator written in PHP, with a twist. It allows you to combine and track your favorite feeds with the content that you generate on your own website.
This tutorial will guide you through the installation process of Kriss Feed on NixOS.
Before you start, make sure you have the following prerequisites:
First, we need to install some packages that are required to run Kriss Feed. In the terminal, run the following commands:
$ sudo nix-env -i php71 php71-intl php71-phar php71-dom php71-json php71-xml php71-pdo_mysql php71-mbstring
This command installs PHP 7.1 and some required extensions such as intl
, phar
, dom
, json
, xml
, pdo_mysql
, and mbstring
.
Next, download the latest release of Kriss Feed from the official GitHub repository. For example, you can run the following command to download Kriss Feed version 1.6.1:
$ wget https://github.com/tontof/kriss_feed/archive/v1.6.1.zip
Then, unzip the downloaded file:
$ unzip v1.6.1.zip
Now, we need to create a configuration file for PHP. Open the configuration file /etc/php.ini
with a text editor (such as nano):
$ sudo nano /etc/php.ini
Add the following line at the end of the file:
date.timezone = "UTC"
Then, save and close the file by pressing Ctrl+X
, Y
, and Enter
.
Next, we need to set up Kriss Feed. Copy the kriss_feed
directory (from the unzipped file in Step 2) to your nginx document root directory:
$ sudo cp -r kriss_feed-1.6.1 /var/www/kriss_feed
Finally, we need to configure Nginx to serve Kriss Feed. Open the Nginx configuration file /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
with a text editor:
$ sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
Add the following configuration block inside the server
block:
location /kriss {
alias /var/www/kriss_feed;
index index.php;
try_files $uri $uri/ /kriss/index.php?$query_string;
}
Then, save and close the file by pressing Ctrl+X
, Y
, and Enter
.
Finally, restart Nginx to apply the changes:
$ sudo systemctl restart nginx
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Kriss Feed on NixOS Latest. You can now access Kriss Feed by opening a web browser and navigating to http://localhost/kriss
.
From there, you can add your favorite feeds, combine them with your own content, and track everything in one place. Happy reading!
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