How to Install Moonmoon on Kali Linux
What is Moonmoon?
Moonmoon is a self-hosted web application that allows you to aggregate blogs, news sites, and any other RSS/Atom feeds to read them in one place. It is free and open-source software.
Prerequisites
Before installing Moonmoon, make sure that your system meets the following requirements:
- Kali Linux Latest version installed.
- Apache and PHP already installed on your system.
Installing Moonmoon
Once you have met the prerequisites, you can proceed with the following steps to install Moonmoon:
- Download Moonmoon from the official website,
https://moonmoon.org/. - Extract the downloaded archive in the directory where you want to install Moonmoon.
- Rename the extracted directory to something more meaningful. For example,
rss-aggregator. - Move the
rss-aggregatordirectory to the Apache web server root directory.
sudo mv rss-aggregator /var/www/html/
- Change the ownership and permissions of the
rss-aggregatordirectory to the Apache user and group.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/rss-aggregator
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/rss-aggregator
Configuring Moonmoon
- In a web browser, navigate to
http://localhost/rss-aggregatororhttp://localhost/<your-directory-name>if you renamed therss-aggregatordirectory accordingly. - You will see the installation page of Moonmoon where you have to enter your details:
- RSS feed URLs
- Personal information
- Title and tagline
- Timezone
- Once you have filled in all the details, click on the "Install Moonmoon" button at the bottom. This will set up Moonmoon and create a
config.phpfile.
Running Moonmoon
- In a web browser, navigate to
http://localhost/rss-aggregatororhttp://localhost/<your-directory-name>if you renamed therss-aggregatordirectory accordingly. - You will see the Moonmoon dashboard.
- Click on "Update Now" to update the feeds.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Moonmoon on Kali Linux Latest. You can now use it to read all your favorite RSS feeds in one place.