Setting up RSS Bridge – LandChad.net

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RSS Bridge is a useful utility you can use to help you avoid the big tech sites, like Facebook and Twitter, which instead of the feed you usually would see, will be a based and minimalist RSS feed.

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You'll need a server or VPS. Nearly any Operating system is supported but for this tutorial I'm gonna presume you're using a Debian-based OS. You'll also need a domain name pointing to your server's IP address which is explained in this tutorial. +

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Installation

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Setting Up and Configuring

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First things first you'll need to make sure that you've hardened you SSH so that password authentication is disabled and you'll also want to setup Fail2Ban. +There's a great tutorial on how to do this which can be read here. +

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+Next we'll install the required packages: +

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apt install -y curl unzip nginx certbot php-fpm php-mysql php-cli php7.3-mbstring php7.3-curl php7.3-xml php7.3-sqlite3 php7.3-json

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+We now have to create the website configuration file +

vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/rss-bridge

and you can add the following as a basic template.

Remember to change the the domain name

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server {
+    root /var/www/rss-bridge;
+    index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
+    server_name rss-bridge.landchad.net;
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+    location / {
+            try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
+    }
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+    location ~ \.php$ {
+            include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
+            fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.3-fpm.sock;
+    }
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+    location ~ /\.ht {
+            deny all;
+    }
+}
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After you have saved the file, you need to create a symlink so the server actually will read the file

ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/rss-bridge /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/rss-bridge

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+ Then we have to create the folder where the service will reside in

cd /var/www
+mkdir rss-bridge
+cd rss-bridge
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Lets download the latest version of RSS-Bridge in the directory

The newest version can be found here, at the time of writing that is "RSS-Bridge 2021-04-25"

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wget https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/archive/refs/tags/2021-04-25.zip

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unzip 2021-04-25.zip

This will create a directory called rss-bridge-version-number, we now want to move all the file contents of the newly created directory to the one we are in

cd rss-bridge-2021-04-25
+mv * ..
+cd ..
+rm -r rss-bridge-2021-04-25 2021-04-25.zip
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Now all we need to do is grant read/write permissions and reload the web server

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chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/rss-bridge
+systemctl reload nginx
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That's it, you should now have a working rss-bridge installed. But you should definately get an SSL certifcate installed

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server { root /var/www/rss-bridge; index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html; - server_name rss-bridge.landchad.net; + server_name rss-bridge.example.org; location / { try_files $uri $uri/ =404; -- cgit v1.2.3 From cbed46d72c51119b99ccb95ebf5d2dadbd08b447 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luke Smith Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2021 18:11:10 -0400 Subject: rss bridge tweaks --- index.html | 2 +- rss-bridge.html | 50 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------------------- 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-) (limited to 'rss-bridge.html') diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index 0cdbfcb..171833b 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ Setting up a Nextcloud Instance (file hosting and more) Setting up Gitea Creating your own chat server with IRC + RSS Bridge: RSSify Mainstream Social Media Accepting Cryptocurrency Tips @@ -110,7 +111,6 @@ Simple static site generators Calibre (library server) PeerTube (like YouTube) - RSS-Bridge XMPP ejabberd Movim for XMPP diff --git a/rss-bridge.html b/rss-bridge.html index 3e9a6db..59f51c0 100644 --- a/rss-bridge.html +++ b/rss-bridge.html @@ -35,17 +35,14 @@ Next we'll install the required packages: apt install -y curl unzip nginx certbot php-fpm php-mysql php-cli php7.3-mbstring php7.3-curl php7.3-xml php7.3-sqlite3 php7.3-json - -We now have to create the website configuration file - vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/rss-bridge -and you can add the following as a basic template. - Remember to change the the domain name - +We now have to create the website configuration file. Create/open the a file below: +nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/rss-bridge +And add the following content: server { root /var/www/rss-bridge; index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html; - server_name rss-bridge.example.org; + server_name rss-bridge.example.org; location / { try_files $uri $uri/ =404; @@ -62,48 +59,37 @@ We now have to create the website configuration file } -After you have saved the file, you need to create a symlink so the server actually will read the file +After you have saved the file, you need to create a symlink so the server actually will read the file. ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/rss-bridge /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/rss-bridge - - Then we have to create the folder where the service will reside in -cd /var/www -mkdir rss-bridge -cd rss-bridge +Then we have to create the folder where the service will reside in. +mkdir -p /var/www/rss-bridge +cd /var/www/rss-bridge -Lets download the latest version of RSS-Bridge in the directory -The newest version can be found here, at the time of writing that is "RSS-Bridge 2021-04-25" - - - wget https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/archive/refs/tags/2021-04-25.zip - - - Unzip the file - -unzip 2021-04-25.zip +Lets download the latest version of RSS-Bridge in the directory. +The newest version can be found here, at the time of writing that is "RSS-Bridge 2021-04-25." + wget https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/archive/refs/tags/2021-04-25.zip +Unzip the file: +unzip 2021-04-25.zip This will create a directory called rss-bridge-version-number, we now want to move all the file contents of the newly created directory to the one we are in -cd rss-bridge-2021-04-25 -mv * .. -cd .. -rm -r rss-bridge-2021-04-25 2021-04-25.zip +mv rss-bridge-2021-04-25/* . +rm -rf rss-bridge-2021-04-25 2021-04-25.zip -Now all we need to do is grant read/write permissions and reload the web server +Now all we need to do is grant read/write permissions and reload the web server. chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/rss-bridge systemctl reload nginx -That's it, you should now have a working rss-bridge installed. But you should definately get an SSL certifcate installed - -Which you can read how to do here +That's it, you should now have a working rss-bridge installed. But you should definately get an SSL certifcate installed which is done briefly here. handskemager.xyz Bitcoin: bc1qhfjgwjzksf2auqjefwpvq20wvyugq3lhqgkxvu - Monero: 88cPx6Gzv5RWRRJLstUt6hACF1BRKPp1RMka1ukyu2iuHT7iqzkNfMogYq3YdDAC8AAYRqmqQMkCgBXiwdD5Dvqw3LsPGLU + Monero: 88cPx6Gzv5RWRRJLstUt6hACF1BRKPp1RMka1ukyu2iuHT7iqzkNfMogYq3YdDAC8AAYRqmqQMkCgBXiwdD5Dvqw3LsPGLU -- cgit v1.2.3