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. Create/open the a file below:

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

And add the following content:

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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.example.org;
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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.

mkdir -p /var/www/rss-bridge
-cd /var/www/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."

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

mv rss-bridge-2021-04-25/* .
-rm -rf 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 which is done briefly here.

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