INSTALL

REQUIREMENTS
	   
  Requires a relatively up-to-date PHP installation (>= 4.3.0) 
  with xml (expat) support. Works fairly well with PHP5.
  
  Your PHP installation must support socket operations. See: 
  http://ch2.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php

  Additionally you will need access to a MySQL or a SQLite database.

QUICK START


    1.  If you are upgrading from an earlier version make sure you have a
	backup copy of all the files you have modified
        
    2.  If you haven't already done so, download the latest release from
	the sourceforge.net project site.
	http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=98845
   
    3.  Unpack inside your web directory:
        
        1.  If you are installing from a tar.gz archive:

                tar xvfz rss-x.y.z.tar.gz
        
        2.  If you are installing from a zipped archive:

                unzip rss-x.y.z.zip
   
   4.   cd to the created directory:

            cd rss
 
   5.   Choose your installation type:

        1.  For a graphical installation, point your browser at the root
            directory of your installation. Enter the necessary information
            about your database structure and continue.

        2.  For a manual installation, create a configuration file, based on the
            sample:
         
            Copy the sample database configuration file:

                cp dbinit.php.sample dbinit.php

            Edit the dbinit.php file to match your database configuration. 
            Make sure that the database exists and has the right permissions
            and the database user you define owns privileges to create/modify
            tables. Point your browser at the root directory of your 
            installation. You should read a message informing you that the 
            database schema has been generated.
   
   6.   If at this point, the browser returns a 500 internal server
	error, then remove (or disable) the .htaccess file in this
	directory and try again.

	mv .htaccess .htaccess.tmp

	See the FAQ http://wiki.gregarius.net/index.php/FAQ for more
	information.

	If the database user you defined lacks privileges to create
	database tables you should import your schema manually: from the
	command-line type (replacing database_user, database_host and
	database_name)
	
	php schema.php --dump > dbstruct.sql
        mysql -u database_user -h database_host -p database_name < dbstruct.sql
	
	
   7.   Point your browser to the URL corresponding the install
	location and click "Admin". After selecting a new password,
	you can start adding feeds by pasting URLs of RSS or RDF feeds
	into the "Add a feed" field. Alternatively you can import a
	list of feeds using the OPML import feature.
   
   8.   Comes with default password protection, however you may wish to 
	strengthen it by using a .htaccess file. 
        
	See http://wiki.gregarius.net/index.php/Password_Protection
	for this purpose.

ABOUT

Swift River/Haiti Tracker is a forked project.  It's core software was Gregarious, 
an RSS reader that seems to have been abandoned by the core developer in 2008.  You
can read more about Gregarious at http://wiki.gregarius.net