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:

  1. Download Moonmoon from the official website, https://moonmoon.org/.
  2. Extract the downloaded archive in the directory where you want to install Moonmoon.
  3. Rename the extracted directory to something more meaningful. For example, rss-aggregator.
  4. Move the rss-aggregator directory to the Apache web server root directory.
sudo mv rss-aggregator /var/www/html/
  1. Change the ownership and permissions of the rss-aggregator directory 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

  1. In a web browser, navigate to http://localhost/rss-aggregator or http://localhost/<your-directory-name> if you renamed the rss-aggregator directory accordingly.
  2. You will see the installation page of Moonmoon where you have to enter your details:
  • RSS feed URLs
  • Personal information
  • Title and tagline
  • Timezone
  1. 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.php file.

Running Moonmoon

  1. In a web browser, navigate to http://localhost/rss-aggregator or http://localhost/<your-directory-name> if you renamed the rss-aggregator directory accordingly.
  2. You will see the Moonmoon dashboard.
  3. 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.