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<h1>Install FreshRSS RSS Aggregator on Debian/Ubuntu Linux</h1>
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<h2>What is FreshRSS?</h2>

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<p>FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS feed aggregator like Leed or Kriss Feed. It is lightweight, easy to work with, powerful, and customizable. It is a multi-user application with an anonymous reading mode. It supports custom tags. There is an API for (mobile) clients, and a Command-Line Interface.<em> -<a href="https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS" target="_blank">https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS</a></em></p>
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<h2>Installation</h2>

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<li>Log into the Linux based device</li>
<li>Run the following commands in the terminal
<div class="codeBlock"># update software repositories<br />
sudo apt update<br />
# install available software updates<br />
sudo apt upgrade -y<br />
# install some dependencies<br />
sudo apt install git apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl -y<br />
# install Apache HTTPD and MySQL<br />
sudo apt install apache2 mariadb-server mariadb-client -y<br />
# install PHP components<br />
sudo apt install php php-curl php-gmp php-intl php-pdo-mysql php-mbstring php-xml php-zip php-ctype php-dom php-fileinfo php-iconv php-json php-simplexml php-xmlreader -y<br />
# configure the MySQL database<br />
sudo su<br />
mysql_secure_installation</div>
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<li>Press Enter to login as root</li>
<li>Type Y and press Enter to set a root password, type the password twice to confirm</li>
<li>Type Y and press Enter to remove anonymous users</li>
<li>Type Y and press Enter to disallow root login remotely</li>
<li>Type Y and press Enter to remove the test database</li>
<li>Type Y and press Enter to reload privilege tables</li>
<li>Run the following command to login into MySQL:
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<li>Authenticate with the root password set earlier</li>
<li>Run the following commands to create the FreshRSS database and database user
<div class="codeBlock">CREATE DATABASE freshrss DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;<br />
GRANT ALL ON freshrss.* TO &#39;freshrss_rw&#39;@&#39;localhost&#39; IDENTIFIED BY &#39;Fr3shRSS!!&#39;;<br />
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;<br />
EXIT;<br />
exit</div>
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<li>Continue with the following commands to download and extract FreshRSS in the Apache webroot
<div class="codeBlock"># download freshrss<br />
wget -O freshRSS.zip https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/archive/master.zip<br />
# extract the zip file<br />
unzip freshRSS.zip<br />
# move the extracted folder to webroot<br />
sudo mv ./FreshRSS-master /var/www/html/freshrss<br />
# set permissions on the freshrss directory<br />
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/freshrss</div>
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<li>Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/freshrss</li>
<li>Select a Language &gt; Click Submit</li>
<li>Click the Go to the next step button</li>
<li>Complete the database configuration form as follows
<p>Type of database: MySQL<br />
Host: localhost<br />
Database username: freshrss_rw<br />
Database password: Fr3shRSS!!<br />
Database: freshrss<br />
Table prefix:</p>
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<li>Click the Go to the next step button</li>
<li>Enter a username and password &gt; Click Submit</li>
<li>Click the Complete Installation button</li>
<li>Login with the username created earlier</li>
<li>Welcome to FreshRSS</li>
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<p>More Info: <a href="https://freshrss.org/" target="_blank">https://freshrss.org/</a></p> </div>
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