REQUIREMENTS Gregarius requires a relatively up-to-date PHP installation (>= 4.3.0) with xml (expat) support. It works fairly well with PHP5. Your PHP installation must support socket operations. See: http://ch2.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php Additionally you will need access to a MySQL or a SQLite database. QUICK START 1. If you are upgrading from an earlier version make sure you have a backup copy of all the files you have modified 2. If you haven't already done so, download the latest release from the sourceforge.net project site. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=98845 3. Unpack the Gregarius package inside your web directory: 1. If you are installing from a tar.gz archive: tar xvfz rss-x.y.z.tar.gz 2. If you are installing from a zipped archive: unzip rss-x.y.z.zip 4. cd to the created directory: cd rss 5. Choose your installation type: 1. For a graphical installation, point your browser at the root directory of your installation. Enter the necessary information about your database structure and continue. 2. For a manual installation, create a configuration file, based on the sample: Copy the sample database configuration file: cp dbinit.php.sample dbinit.php Edit the dbinit.php file to match your database configuration. Make sure that the database exists and has the right permissions and the database user you define owns privileges to create/modify tables. Point your browser at the root directory of your installation. You should read a message informing you that the database schema has been generated. 6. If at this point, the browser returns a 500 internal server error, then remove (or disable) the .htaccess file in this directory and try again. mv .htaccess .htaccess.tmp See the FAQ http://wiki.gregarius.net/index.php/FAQ for more information. If the database user you defined lacks privileges to create database tables you should import your schema manually: from the command-line type (replacing database_user, database_host and database_name) php schema.php --dump > dbstruct.sql mysql -u database_user -h database_host -p database_name < dbstruct.sql 7. Point your browser to the URL corresponding the install location and click "Admin". After selecting a new password, you can start adding feeds by pasting URLs of RSS or RDF feeds into the "Add a feed" field. Alternatively you can import a list of feeds using the OPML import feature. 8. This version of Gregarius comes with default password protection, however you may wish to to strengthen it by using a .htaccess file. See http://wiki.gregarius.net/index.php/Password_Protection for this purpose.