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            <h1>Install FreshRSS - RSS Feed Aggregator - on Windows</h1>
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          <h2>What is FreshRSS?</h2>

<blockquote><em>FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS feed aggregator. It is lightweight, easy to work with, powerful, and customizable. -<a href="https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS" target="_blank">https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS</a></em></blockquote>

<h2>Installation</h2>

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	<li>Download XAMPP <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/XAMPP%20Windows/" target="_blank">Download</a></li>
	<li>Download FreshRSS <a href="https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/releases/latest" target="_blank">Download</a></li>
	<li><label for="cb_li_917989_0">Download Microsoft Visual C++ </label><label for="cb_li_917989_0"><a href="https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe" target="_blank">Download</a></label></li>
	<li>Install Microsoft Visual C++</li>
	<li>Right click the downloaded XAMPP file &gt; Extract All...</li>
	<li>Right click the downloaded FreshRSS.zip file &gt; Extract All...</li>
	<li>Rename the extracted folder freshrss</li>
	<li>Cut the freshrss folder inside the XAMPP/htdocs directory</li>
	<li>Copy the extracted XAMPP directory to a safe location to run from, C:\Program Files for example</li>
	<li>Run XAMPP/setup_xampp.bat to update the configuration files with the new server location</li>
	<li>Run XAMPP/xampp-control.exe</li>
	<li>Click the Start button next to Apache and MySQL</li>
	<li>Navigate to XAMPP/mysql/bin</li>
	<li>Hold the SHIFT key and right click in the white space &gt; Open PowerShell windows here...</li>
	<li>Type the following in the PowerShell window to setup the database
	<div class="codeBlock">.\mysql -u root<br />
	CREATE DATABASE freshrss DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;<br />
	CREATE USER &#39;freshrss_rw&#39;@&#39;localhost&#39; IDENTIFIED BY &#39;Fr3s4R$S!!&#39;;<br />
	GRANT ALL ON freshrss.* TO &#39;freshrss_rw&#39;@&#39;localhost&#39;;<br />
	FLUSH PRIVILEGES;<br />
	exit;</div>
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	<li>Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP:8089</li>
	<li>Select a Language &gt; Click Submit</li>
	<li>Click the Go to the next step button</li>
	<li>Complete the database configuration form as follows
	<p>Type of database: MySQL<br />
	Host: localhost<br />
	Database username: freshrss_rw<br />
	Database password: Fr3s4R$S!!<br />
	Database: freshrss<br />
	Table prefix:</p>
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	<li>Click the Go to the next step button</li>
	<li>Enter a username and password &gt; Click Submit</li>
	<li>Click the Complete Installation button</li>
	<li>Login with the username and password created earlier</li>
	<li>Welcome to FreshRSS</li>
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