What is FreshRSS?
FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS feed aggregator. It is lightweight, easy to work with, powerful, and customizable. -https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS
Installation
- Download XAMPP Download
- Download FreshRSS Download
- Install Microsoft Visual C++
- Right click the downloaded XAMPP file > Extract All...
- Right click the downloaded FreshRSS.zip file > Extract All...
- Rename the extracted folder freshrss
- Cut the freshrss folder inside the XAMPP/htdocs directory
- Copy the extracted XAMPP directory to a safe location to run from, C:\Program Files for example
- Run XAMPP/setup_xampp.bat to update the configuration files with the new server location
- Run XAMPP/xampp-control.exe
- Click the Start button next to Apache and MySQL
- Navigate to XAMPP/mysql/bin
- Hold the SHIFT key and right click in the white space > Open PowerShell windows here...
- Type the following in the PowerShell window to setup the database
.\mysql -u root
CREATE DATABASE freshrss DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
CREATE USER 'freshrss_rw'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'Fr3s4R$S!!';
GRANT ALL ON freshrss.* TO 'freshrss_rw'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit; - Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP:8089
- Select a Language > Click Submit
- Click the Go to the next step button
- Complete the database configuration form as follows
Type of database: MySQL
Host: localhost
Database username: freshrss_rw
Database password: Fr3s4R$S!!
Database: freshrss
Table prefix: - Click the Go to the next step button
- Enter a username and password > Click Submit
- Click the Complete Installation button
- Login with the username and password created earlier
- Welcome to FreshRSS