Lilina Readme — Version 1.0 Alpha 2

Welcome!

Welcome and thanks for downloading Lilina! This file is designed to give you a guide into the installation and use of the Lilina News Aggregator software.

About

Lilina is an open source feed aggregator, or feed reader, written in PHP. It doesn't require any PEAR or PECL packages and is simple to set up and use.

This software is Open Source Initiative approved Open Source Software. Open Source Initiative Approved is a trademark of the Open Source Initiative.

Requirements

• A webserver, like Apache or IIS
• PHP 4.3+
• The XML entension
• Support for PCRE
• Either:
  • The mbstring extension or
  • The iconv extension
• Either:
  • Support for socket connections (see the PHP manual entry on fsockopen) or
  • The cURL extension (see the PHP manual entry on cURL)

That's it! No PEAR packages are needed and no MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite databases are needed. Lilina is fully self-contained and uses flat-files instead of databases.

Installation

Upload to your server and then simply open up install.php in your browser

Permissions

To use Lilina, you will need to make sure that both your cache/ and conf/ directories are writable. You can set the proper permissions using:

chmod -R 0755 cache conf

If that does not work, you will need to give the folder world writable permissions. This is not recommended as it is then possible for anyone to edit your files. You can set it by executing:

chmod -R 0777 cache conf

If you use a graphical FTP client, you can also set it on each folder using the number 755 or 777, or giving read and execute permissions to all and the write permission to the owner only

Support

Support is available from the Lilina support page, the Lilina forums or on the Lilina wiki.