And be aware, TT-RSS running on Windows is not officially supported, so don't expect any answers from a TT-RSS developer. If it become broken someday, or you find a bug, please verify on an officially supported OS before reporting. And use Firefox or Chrome, instead of IE.
No advanced computer skills required to complete the tutorial. You only need to know how to make new folders, copy, rename files, and browse the Internet then download files, and extract files from zip archives, and edit plain text files.
You will need a decent text editor that can handle UNIX EOL, if you don't know what this means, you can just download and use Notepad++ from
http://notepad-plus-plus.org
The following procedures are tested under Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.
I. Download the latest version of the following software:
1. Mongoose Windows executable, from
https://code.google.com/p/mongoose/downloads/list
At the time of writing it's mongoose-3.7.exe
2. PHP Windows x86 thread safe binaries zip, from
http://www.php.net/downloads.php
At the time of writing it's php-5.4.15-Win32-VC9-x86.zip
3. PostgreSQL binaries from installer - Win x86-32, from
http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/pgbindownload
At the time of writing it's postgresql-9.2.4-1-windows-binaries
4. Tiny Tiny RSS, from
https://github.com/gothfox/Tiny-Tiny-RSS
Click the ZIP button, you get master.zip
II. Make the TT-RSS folder tree
1. Make a new folder that about to hold all TT-RSS related stuff. I use "C:\http" as example, you could change. Any path not containing spaces is considered appropriate. For example, "D:\mystuff\tt-rss-server" is good, but "C:\my stuff\http server" is bad.
2. Do some file operations to make a folder look like below. You may need to copy, rename, extract, and even delete files.
C:\http contains 4 objects:
mongoose.exe file renamed
pgsql folder extracted/renamed
php folder extracted/renamed
web_root folder manually created
C:\http\pgsql contains 3 objects extracted from PostgreSQL zip archive
bin folder, extracted as is
lib folder, extracted as is
share folder, extracted as is
C:\http\php contains 8 objects extracted from PHP zip archive
libeay32.dll file
libpq.dll file
php.ini-production file
php-cgi.exe file
php-win.exe file
php5ts.dll file
ssleay32.dll file
ext folder
C:\http\php\ext contains 3 files extracted from PHP zip archive
php_curl.dll file
php_mbstring.dll file
php_pgsql.dll file
C:\http\web_root contains 1 folder
tt-rss folder by extracting everything from TT-RSS zip archive, renamed
III. Setup Mongoose and PHP
1. Create a text file c:\http\mongoose.conf, encoded in ANSI, Windows EOL, with 3 lines of
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cgi_interpreter C:\http\php\php-cgi.exe
listening_ports 80
document_root C:\http\web_root2. rename php.ini-production as php.ini, edit to make sure it contains the following lines
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extension_dir = "ext"
extension=php_curl.dll
extension=php_mbstring.dll
extension=php_pgsql.dllYou may remove the leading semicolons to get it right.
3. Create a text file C:\http\web_root\index.php, write 3 lines to it
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<html>
<?php phpinfo();?>
</html>4. Run C:\http\mongoose.exe as administrator, then find its icon in system tray, right-click and choose Install Service, right-click again and choose Exit.
Win+R to open the Run window, run services.msc. Find Mongoose in the service list, right-click and choose properties, then choose "Log On" tab, choose "This account", Fill in "Network Service" and leave the two password fields blank. Click OK to close the window.
Right-click Mongoose in the service list again, choose start.
It's OK to keep it blocked if any firewall pop-up window asks.
5. Use your Internet Browser (Not IE) to open the link below
http://localhost
You should see the PHP info page.
IV. Setup the database
Run Command Prompt as administrator, then execute the following commands one by one
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C:
cd C:\http\pgsql\bin
initdb -E UTF8 --lc-messages="american-english" -D "C:\http\pgsql\data"scroll up and find the line saying
"The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "UserName"
remember the user name between the quotations because we will use it latter. Now continue executing commands.
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pg_ctl register -N PostgreSQL -U "NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService" -D "C:\http\pgsql\data" -S auto
net start PostgreSQL
createdb ttrss
psql -d ttrss -f "C:\http\web_root\tt-rss\schema\ttrss_schema_pgsql.sql"Close the Command Prompt window.
V. Setup TT-RSS
1. Copy the file C:\http\web_root\tt-rss\config.php-dist as config.php, then edit to make sure the following lines are right
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define('DB_TYPE', "pgsql");
define('DB_HOST', "");
define('DB_USER', "[i]UserName[/i]"); <- fill in the user name you remembered when setting up database
define('DB_NAME', "ttrss");
define('DB_PASS', "");
define('DB_PORT', '');
define('SELF_URL_PATH', 'http://localhost/tt-rss/');
define('PHP_EXECUTABLE', 'C:/http/php/php-win.exe');
define('CHECK_FOR_NEW_VERSION', false);
define('PLUGINS', 'auth_internal, note');2. Make the feeds update daemon auto start on every boot. The command to use is
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C:\http\php\php-win.exe "C:\http\web_root\tt-rss\update.php" --daemonRun Task Scheduler, follow the menu Action -> Create Task, see the snapshots for reference. after adding the task, run it manually.
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VI. All done, browser to http://localhost/tt-rss, login using admin / password, and Enjoy.