Installing FreshRSS (PHP)

jeherve

Hi everyone! 👋

I've been looking at FreshRSS as a good way to self-host my RSS reader. In the installation instructions, they recommend the following:

Download your chosen version of FreshRSS, or fetch it via git. It’s advisable that you put FreshRSS in /usr/share/, and symlink the ./p/ folder to the root of your web server. Make sure to expose only the ./p/ folder to the Web, as the other directories contain personal and sensitive data.

I was wondering how this would look like in practice with your typical Opalstack Apache/PHP-FPM application (or Nginx/PHP-FPM I suppose). We can't really just leave the FreshRSS app (that accesses the database) somewhere outside of ~/apps, with a symlink for the/p/ directory directly to ~/apps/myfreshrssapp?

Thank you all for your help!

sean

jeherve We have a symlink app type for this purpose, ie:

Put the main FreshRSS directory outside of apps, eg /home/shelluser/FreshRSS.
Create a PHP symlink app pointing at /home/shelluser/FreshRSS/p/.
Serve the symlink app from your site.

More information is available at: https://docs.opalstack.com/topic-guides/symlinks/

Hope this helps 🙂

jeherve

Oh that's perfect, I didn't know about symlink apps! I'll give it a try. Thank you for the super quick reply!

HelenaGwyn

Hi, when installing FreshRSS it asks to update permissions with a script using sudo which isn't possible off course.

It asks to update the following pemissions.

# Based on group access
chown -R :www-data .

# Read files, and directory traversal
chmod -R g+rX .

# Write access
mkdir -p ./data/users/_/
chmod -R g+w ./data/

How do I do this?

sean

HelenaGwyn Skip the first chown command, it's not needed.

The remaining commands can be run as your app's shell user from within FreshRSS directory.