How to Install Kriss Feed on Debian Latest

Kriss Feed is a simple and smart (or stupid) feed reader that can be used to subscribe and read RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds. In this tutorial, we will see how to download and install Kriss Feed on Debian latest version.

Prerequisites

Before starting, you should have the following things ready:

  • Debian latest version.
  • sudo privileges to install software packages.
  • A web server with PHP support, such as Apache or Nginx.
  • git installed on your system to clone the Kriss Feed repository from Github.

Step 1: Install Git

If you don't have git installed on your system, you can install it using the following command in the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install git

Enter your password when prompted to give sudo privileges.

Step 2: Clone Kriss Feed

Next, we will clone the Kriss Feed repository from Github onto our system using the following command:

sudo git clone https://github.com/tontof/kriss_feed /var/www/html/kriss

You can ignore the warning messages that may appear while cloning the repository.

Step 3: Set Permissions

After cloning the repository, we need to set proper permissions to the cache directory so that Kriss Feed can write data to it. Run the following commands to do so:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/kriss/cache/
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/kriss/cache/

Step 4: Configure Web Server

We need to configure our web server to serve files from the Kriss Feed directory. We will use Apache as our web server in this tutorial.

Create a new virtual host configuration file for Kriss Feed:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/kriss.conf

Add the following content to the file:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName your-domain.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/kriss/
    <Directory /var/www/html/kriss/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Save and close the file by pressing Ctrl+X, followed by Y and Enter.

Now, enable the new virtual host configuration using the following command:

sudo a2ensite kriss

Reload the Apache configuration for the changes to take effect:

sudo service apache2 reload

Step 5: Access Kriss Feed

Open your web browser and navigate to your domain name or IP address. You should see the Kriss Feed login page.

Conclusion

You have successfully installed Kriss Feed on Debian latest version. You can now subscribe to feeds and start reading them with Kriss Feed.