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README.md

Rocksolid Light (rslight) - a web based Usenet news client

Visit https://www.novabbs.com to try Rocksolid Light

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Rocksolid Light is based on NewsPortal, which discontinued development in 2008, and was developed by Florian Amrhein https://florian-amrhein.de/newsportal/

Rocksolid Light contains some major code and feature changes, but would not exist without NewsPortal as a basis for development.

Requirements:

You will need a web server: rslight has been tested with apache2, lighttpd, nginx and synchronet web servers

php is required, and your web server must be configured to serve .php.

php-mbstring (to support other character sets), sharutils (for uudecode) and openssl are required. phpmailer is required if email confirmation is to be used. These are the names for Debian packages. Other distributions should also provide these in some way.

If you get errors, check your log files to see what packages I've failed to mention.

For FreeBSD12: php72, php72-extensions, sharutils, php72-pcntl, php72-sockets, php72-mbstring, php72-openssl Optional: phpmailer, gnupg

Installation:

  1. Set up your webserver to handle php files

  2. Extract rslight into a temporary location

  3. Run the provided install script (debian-install.sh or freebsd-install.sh) as root and answer the prompts. This will configure locations, create directories and move files into place.

  4. Edit configuration file

Load common/setup.php in your browser to configure your site. The admin password was displayed during install but can also be found in your config directory in admin.inc.php

  1. Add a cron job for the root user. Change the directories in this line to match your setup as shown in the installation script. Set the minutes as you wish. The paths must match your installation:

*/5 * * * * cd /usr/local/www/html/spoolnews ; bash -lc "php /etc/rslight/scripts/cron.php" This will start the nntp server, then drop privileges to your web user and begin pulling articles from the remote server to create your spool. You won't see articles immediately in rslight, please wait 15-30 minutes to begin to see articles appear.

If you have trouble, post to rocksolid.nodes.help and we'll try to help.

Retro Guy retroguy@novabbs.com