How to Install FreshRSS on Alpine Linux Latest

FreshRSS is a free, self-hosted RSS aggregator that can be used to collect news feeds from different websites and display them in a single page. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install FreshRSS on Alpine Linux Latest.

Prerequisites

Before starting the installation process, you need to have a few things:

• A working installation of Alpine Linux Latest
• Root access to the system
• A web server like Nginx or Apache

Step 1: Install Required Dependencies

To install FreshRSS, we need to install some dependencies that are required for it. Open your terminal and update your package index first.

apk update

Now, install the dependencies by running the following command.

apk add git nginx php7-fpm php7-opcache php7-dom php7-pdo php7-pdo_mysql php7-curl

Step 2: Clone FreshRSS Repository

Next, we need to clone FreshRSS's git repository to our server. Move to your web server's root directory and execute the following command to clone FresRSS repo.

cd /var/www/html/
git clone https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS.git

Step 3: Configure Nginx

Now that we have installed FreshRSS's dependencies and cloned its repository, we need to configure our web server to serve FreshRSS.

Here we are using Nginx, so create a new server block for FreshRSS by creating a file in /etc/nginx/conf.d/ directory.

nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/freshrss.conf

Add the following configuration in the file

server {
   listen       80;
   server_name  example.com; # Replace with your own domain
   root         /var/www/html/FreshRSS;

   # Logs
   access_log /var/log/nginx/freshrss.access.log;
   error_log /var/log/nginx/freshrss.error.log;

   # PHP-FPM configuration
   location ~ \.php$ {
       try_files $uri =404;
       fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock; # PHP version may differ
       fastcgi_index index.php;
       fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
       include fastcgi_params;
   }

   # Static file serving
   location / {
       try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
       index  index.html index.htm index.php;
   }
}

After adding the configuration, save and close the file.

Step 4: Configure FreshRSS

Now that we have FreshRSS installed and our web server is configured, we need to configure FreshRSS itself. Navigate to FreshRSS installation directory

cd /var/www/html/FreshRSS/

Then, copy the sample configuration file.

cp config.default.php config.php

Open config.php file in your text editor and update the following parameters.

define('SELF_URL_PATH', 'http://example.com'); // replace with your domain name
define('DB_USER', 'freshrss');
define('DB_PASS', 'password');
define('DB_NAME', 'freshrssdb');
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
define('DB_TYPE', 'mysql');
define('DB_PORT', '3306');

After modifying the configuration parameters, save and close the file.

Step 5: Create FreshRSS Database

We also need to create a new database for FreshRSS. Log in to MySQL shell with root user and execute the following commands to create a new user and database and grant permissions to the user.

CREATE USER 'freshrss'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
CREATE DATABASE freshrssdb;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON freshrssdb.* TO 'freshrss'@'localhost';

Step 6: Start Nginx and PHP-FPM

Now start the Nginx and PHP-FPM services, so that FreshRSS is accessible through the web browser.

rc-update add nginx
rc-update add php-fpm7
/etc/init.d/nginx start
/etc/init.d/php-fpm7 start

Step 7: Access FreshRSS

Finally, access FreshRSS using your web browser. Point your browser to http://your-domain.com/ or http://your-server-IP/ and view your collection of RSS feeds.

Conclusion

That’s it! We have successfully installed FreshRSS on Alpine Linux Latest with Nginx and PHP-FPM. You now have a self-hosted RSS aggregator and can read all your favorite RSS feeds from one place.