[How-To] Tiny Tiny RSS (Google Reader)

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[How-To] Get "Google Reader" working right on router

As you might know, Google Reader is to shutdown on summer. The goal of this How-To is to install Google Reader replacement
right to router - a Tiny Tiny RSS which Looks like Google Reader, Feels like Google Reader and so on Check out my video clip.


The positive side effect is a privacy — no one can see what feeds you are reading.

Pre-requirements: asuswrt-merlin firmware on board and a USB drive with Entware installation.

Download and unpack preconfigured TT-RSS

cd /opt
wget http://files.ryzhov-al.ru/Routers/tt-rss/tt-rss_1.7.5.tgz
tar -xvzf ./tt-rss_1.7.5.tgz
rm ./tt-rss_1.7.5.tgz

Install necessary packages

opkg install \
dtach \
lighttpd-mod-fastcgi \
mc \
mysql-server \
php5-cgi \
php5-cli \
php5-mod-ctype \
php5-mod-curl \
php5-mod-dom \
php5-mod-hash \
php5-mod-iconv \
php5-mod-json \
php5-mod-mbstring \
php5-mod-mysql \
php5-mod-session \
php5-mod-simplexml \
php5-mod-xml \
wget

Start it!

/opt/etc/init.d/S70mysqld start
/opt/etc/init.d/S80lighttpd start
/opt/etc/init.d/S81ttrss-update start

All necessary stuff will be started automatically on reboot.

Point a browser to

http://192.168.1.1:81/tt-rss/

where 192.168.1.1 is an ip address of router, enter default credentials "admin"/"password" and enjoy using Tiny Tiny RSS.

That's an easy way of installing TT-RSS. If you want to know technical detail about it, see third post.