Dave Programming: Preparing Ubuntu for the tt-rss installation

To install tt-rss on your server you will need to do the following:

Install apache2. postgresql, and some php packages
Create a database user ( ttrss_user )
Create a database (ttrss_db) belonging to the user just created.
Download the tt-rss package
Unpack the tt-rss package
Copy the tt-rss directory to /var/www/tt-rss and assign it the appropriate owner/group ( www-data ).

These steps are shown in more detail below:

To install the apropriate packages, type

sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 postgresql php5-pgsql php5-curl

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At this point, you should be able to verify that the apache2 server is running by entering the IP address of the Ubuntu virtual machine in a browser on your windows machine. You should see something like this:

To create a database user, ttrss_user, type

sudo -u postgres createuser -P -S -D -R -l ttrss_user

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To create a database, ttrss_db, belonging to the user, ttrss_user, type

sudo -u postgres createdb --owner=ttrss_user ttrss_db

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To download the tt-rss package, bring up firefox, go to the tt-rss.org site, right click on the download link, and copy the link address as indicated in the following window:

Then paste the link address into a shell window as an argument to wget to form the following command:

wget https://github.com/gothfox/Tiny-Tiny-RSS/archive/1.7.9.tar.gz

As of this writing ( 2013-06-06 ) this is the latest version of tt-rss but that will change in the future. Using a browser to get the download link should insure that you get the latest version.

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