# Install FreshRSS - RSS Feed Aggregator - on Windows

## What is FreshRSS?

> FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS feed aggregator. It is lightweight, easy to work with, powerful, and customizable. -https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS

## Installation

1. Download XAMPP Download
2. Download FreshRSS Download
3. Download Microsoft Visual C++ Download
4. Install Microsoft Visual C++
5. Right click the downloaded XAMPP file > Extract All...
6. Right click the downloaded FreshRSS.zip file > Extract All...
7. Rename the extracted folder freshrss
8. Cut the freshrss folder inside the XAMPP/htdocs directory
9. Copy the extracted XAMPP directory to a safe location to run from, C:\Program Files for example
10. Run XAMPP/setup_xampp.bat to update the configuration files with the new server location
11. Run XAMPP/xampp-control.exe
12. Click the Start button next to Apache and MySQL
13. Navigate to XAMPP/mysql/bin
14. Hold the SHIFT key and right click in the white space > Open PowerShell windows here...
15. Type the following in the PowerShell window to setup the database
    .\mysql -u root
    CREATE DATABASE freshrss DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
    CREATE USER 'freshrss_rw'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'Fr3s4R$S!!';
    GRANT ALL ON freshrss.* TO 'freshrss_rw'@'localhost';
    FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
    exit;
16. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP:8089
17. Select a Language > Click Submit
18. Click the Go to the next step button
19. Complete the database configuration form as follows

    Type of database: MySQL
    Host: mariadb
    Database username: freshrss_rw
    Database password: Fr3s4R$S!!
    Database: freshrss
    Table prefix:

20. Click the Go to the next step button
21. Enter a username and password > Click Submit
22. Click the Complete Installation button
23. Login with the username and password created earlier
24. Welcome to FreshRSS