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KrISS Feed Is A Simple, Fast Feed Reader For Your Web Server

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://tontof.net/kriss/feed/">KrISS Feed</a> is a simple feed reader you can install on your web server.</b> Like <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/05/tiny-tiny-rss-ubuntu-ppa-google-reader.html" title="Tiny Tiny RSS Ubuntu PPA (Google Reader Alternative)">Tiny Tiny RSS</a>, this is a web application so you can access it from any computer or mobile device that has an Internet connection, using only a web browser.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/kriss-feed.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="KrISS feed" border="0" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfcGX7_-s39lVCK798qYjrQNZvkrvp1ms4gIGnpaDZPnWs4w7SY0v4TJB3QONd9Y90URNr-7DjSozB6dJ92U5DbPpplRjisSGeijd6UF6I65X52-mmol4cEn7ykYbW_LgvSX8Gm3J9cJc/s320/kriss-feed.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><b>KrISS Feed features</b>:<br /><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">fast and easy to install;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">doesn't require SQL / databases;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">highly customizable: change its look via CSS (12 styles are available to download from its website but you can also create your own styles), customize the menu, paging, etc.;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">public/protected/private visibility;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">the feeds can be updated using Javascript, Cron or manually;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">list or expanded view;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">keyboard shortcuts;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">OPML import/export;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">mobile support using responsive web design;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">easily share links with <a href="http://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=php:shaarli">Shaarli</a>;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">auto mark as read when going to next item;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">star items;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">order by newer or older items;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">show unread or all items;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">more! </li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/kriss-feed_2.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="KrISS Feed expanded" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/kriss-feed_2_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Also, version 8 (<a href="http://tontof.net/?2013/09/09/20/30/28-enfin-la-version-8">released</a> yesterday) has added plugins support, but there are no plugins available yet as far as I know.</div><br /><b>You can see an online KrISS Feed demo @ <a href="http://tontof.net/feed/">http://tontof.net/feed/</a></b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here are a few more screenshots with KrISS Feed using custom styles (available to download from its <a href="http://tontof.net/kriss/feed/#style">homepage</a>):</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/kriss-feed-style1.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="KrISS feed" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/kriss-feed-style1_thumb.png" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/kriss-feed-style2.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="KrISS feed" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/kriss-feed-style2_thumb.png" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/kriss-feed-style3.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="KrISS feed" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/kriss-feed-style3_thumb.png" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/kriss-feed-style4.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="KrISS feed" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/kriss-feed-style4_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install KrISS Feed</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Before proceeding, make sure your web server runs PHP 5.2 or newer. KrISS Feed requires php-xml, php-mbstring and php5-curl. In Ubuntu, the first two are included in the libapache2-mod-php5 package.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>1. Install the KrISS Feed dependencies in Ubuntu using the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 php5-curl</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2. Then, download and install KrISS Feed by using the commands below:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>wget https://raw.github.com/tontof/kriss_feed/master/index.php -O /tmp/index.php<br />sudo mkdir /var/www/kriss<br />sudo cp /tmp/index.php /var/www/kriss/<br />sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/kriss/</code></pre><br /><b>3.</b> Visit http://YOURSERVER/kriss (or http://localhost/kriss if you've installed it locally), enter the username and password desired for KrISS Feed and click "Install Kriss feed":<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_8mfDQ8C2WKGocwwi4QkYOE1mxP4jJ7eZ8gbVFu3H-oLuHvCbYE3uZk17qqZj7WZt7Fxnbo4StFE2vomBnRFEVgOJhvDFM8DAdn0D0KkcKubLUZF-qYvdljreM_1CjduF9zdej39pbFc/s1600/kriss-feed-install.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_8mfDQ8C2WKGocwwi4QkYOE1mxP4jJ7eZ8gbVFu3H-oLuHvCbYE3uZk17qqZj7WZt7Fxnbo4StFE2vomBnRFEVgOJhvDFM8DAdn0D0KkcKubLUZF-qYvdljreM_1CjduF9zdej39pbFc/s320/kriss-feed-install.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The web application should now be installed on your server.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The first time you login you'll be promted to import an OPML file (exported for instance from Google Reader) - if you don't want to do this for now, click Cancel. Later on you can import an OPML file ia the KrISS Feed configuration pane.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To get KrISS Feed to update the feeds automatically, click <i>Configuration</i> and search for the "Auto update with javascript" option. At the bottom of the configuration page you'll also find instructions on how to update your feeds using Cron.</div><br />If you want <b>to install new styles</b>, download them from <a href="http://tontof.net/kriss/feed/#style">HERE</a> and copy the user.css file to <i>/var/www/kriss/inc/</i><br /><br /><b>For more information, see the KrISS Feed <a href="http://tontof.net/kriss/feed/">homepage</a> and its <a href="https://github.com/tontof/kriss_feed">GitHub page</a>.</b>

KrISS Feed Is A Simple, Fast Feed Reader For Your Web Server

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