In this article we will show you how to install Selfoss on a Debian Wheezy VPS with PHP-FPM, Nginx and MySQL. Selfoss is a new multipurpose rss reader, live stream, mashup and aggregation web application. It is written in PHP and uses either SQLite, MySQL or PostgreSQL as a database. Selfoss is a project of Tobias Zeising and is licensed under GPL v3.
Install MySQL and create a database.
apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client
mysql -uroot -p CREATE DATABASE selfoss GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON selfoss.* TO 'selfoss'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '_PASSWORD_'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; /q
Install Nginx and PHP-FPM
apt-get install nginx php5-fpm php-cli php5-mysql php5-gd php5-mcrypt
Create a root directory for your web site
mkdir -p /var/www/yourwebsite.com/{public_html,logs}
Download and configure selfoss
wget http://selfoss.aditu.de/selfoss-2.9.zip -O /tmp/selfoss.zip unzip -d /var/www/yourwebsite.com/public_html /tmp/selfoss.zip
Copy defaults.ini to config.ini
cp /var/www/yourwebsite.com/public_html/defaults.ini /var/www/yourwebsite.com/public_html/config.ini
Open the config.ini file and change the following
vim /var/www/yourwebsite.com/public_html/config.ini
db_type=mysql db_database=selfoss db_username=selfoss db_password=_PASSWORD_ db_port=3306
Change permissions.
chown -R www-data: /var/www/yourwebsite.com/public_html/
Nginx configuration.
Create a new Nginx server block with the following content
# /etc/nginx/sites-available/yourwebsite.com
# https://github.com/SSilence/selfoss/wiki/nginx-configuration
upstream backend {
server unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name yourwebsite.com;
root /var/www/yourwebsite.com/public_html/;
access_log /var/www/yourwebsite.com/logs/access.log;
error_log /var/www/yourwebsite.com/logs/error.log;
location ~* \ (gif|jpg|png) {
expires 30d;
}
location ~ ^/favicons/.*$ {
try_files $uri /data/$uri;
}
location ~ ^/thumbnails/.*$ {
try_files $uri /data/$uri;
}
location ~* ^/(data\/logs|data\/sqlite|config\.ini|\.ht) {
deny all;
}
location / {
index index.php index.html index.htm;
try_files $uri /public/$uri /index.php$is_args$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass backend;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root/$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
Symlink it and restart the server
ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/yourwebsite.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/yourwebsite.com /etc/init.d/nginx restart
The feeds can be updated manually or via a cron job. To set a cron job run the following command:
sudo echo "*/10 * * * * root wget -o /dev/null http://yourwebsite.com/update" >> /etc/cron.d/selfoss
You can find more info about Selfoss on their official website — http://selfoss.aditu.de/
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