Sources for CommaFeed.com.
Google Reader inspired self-hosted RSS reader, based on JAX-RS, Wicket and AngularJS.
Deploy on your own server (using TomEE, a lightweight JavaEE6 container based on Tomcat) or even in the cloud for free on OpenShift.
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Deployment on OpenShift
Hosting an application on OpenShift is free. At the moment those instructions are not working because the application takes too long to build on OpenShift and causes a timeout. See here for an alternative method.- Create an account on OpenShift.
- Add an application, select
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.0
. - For the
Public URL
set the name you want (e.g.commafeed
). - For the
Source Code
option, clickChange
and set this repository (https://github.com/Athou/commafeed.git
). - Click
Create Application
. - Click
Add cartridge
and selectMySQL
. - Wait a couple of minutes and access your application.
- The default user is
admin
and the password isadmin
.
Deployment on your own server
For storage, you can either use an embedded HSQLDB database or an external MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLServer database. You also need Maven 3.x (and a Java 1.7+ JDK) installed in order to build the application.To install maven and openjdk on Ubuntu, issue the following commands
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:natecarlson/maven3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk maven3
# Not required but if you don't, use 'mvn3' instead of 'mvn' for the rest of the instructions.
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/mvn3 /usr/bin/mvn
On Windows and other operating systems, just download maven 3.x from the official site, extract it somewhere and add the bin
directory to your PATH
environment variable.Download the sources (it doesn't matter where, you can delete the directory when you're done). If you don't have git you can download the sources as a zip file from here
git clone https://github.com/Athou/commafeed.git
cd commafeed
Now build the application# Embedded HSQL database:
mvn clean package tomee:build -Pprod
# External MySQL database:
mvn clean package tomee:build -Pprod -Pmysql
# External PostgreSQL database:
mvn clean package tomee:build -Pprod -Ppgsql
# External Microsoft SQL Server database:
mvn clean package tomee:build -Pprod -Pmssql
It will generate a zip file at target/commafeed.zip
with everything you need to run the application.- Create a directory somewhere (e.g.
/opt/commafeed/
) and extract the generated zip inside this directory. - Create a directory called
logs
(e.g./opt/commafeed/logs
) - Copy the file
conf/setenv.sh
(Linux) orconf/setenv.bat
(Windows) tobin/
- If you don't use the embedded database, create a database in your external database instance, then uncomment the
Resource
element corresponding to the database engine you use fromconf/tomee.xml
and edit the default credentials. - If you'd like to change the default port (8082), edit
conf/server.xml
and look for<Connector port="8082" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
. Change the port to the value you'd like to use. - CommaFeed will run on the
/commafeed
context. If you'd like to change the context, go towebapps
and renamecommafeed.war
. Use the special nameROOT.war
to deploy to the root context. - To start and stop the application, use
bin/startup.sh
andbin/shutdown.sh
on Linux (you need tochmod +x bin/*.sh
) orbin\startup.bat
andbin\shutdown.bat
on Windows. If you use the embedded database, note that the database file will be created in the current directory, so make sure you always start the app in the same directory. You can optionally set an absolute path instead of a relative one intomee.xml
. - To update the application with a newer version, pull the latest
changes and use the same command you used to build the complete TomEE
package, but without the
tomee:build
part (keep-Pprod -P<database>
). This will generate the filetarget/commafeed.war
. Copy this file to your tomeewebapps/
directory. - The application is online at http://localhost:8082/commafeed. Don't forget to set the public URL in the admin settings.
- The default user is
admin
and the password isadmin
.
ProxyPreserveHost on
option should be set in your config file.Local development
Checkout the code and use maven to build and start a local TomEE instance.mvn clean package tomee:run
The application is online at http://localhost:8082/commafeed. Any change to the source code will be applied immediatly. The default user is
admin
and the password is admin
.Translate CommaFeed into your language
Files for internationalization are located here.To add a new language, create a new file in that directory. The name of the file should be the two-letters ISO-639-1 language code. The language has to be referenced in the
languages.properties
file to be picked up.When adding new translations, add them in en.properties then run
mvn -e groovy:execute -Pi18n
. It will parse the english file and add placeholders in the other translation files. Themes
To create a theme, create a new filesrc/main/webapp/sass/themes/_<theme>.scss
. Your styles should be wrapped in a #theme-<theme>
element and use the SCSS format which is a superset of CSS.Don't forget to reference your theme in
src/main/webapp/sass/app.scss
and in src/main/webapp/js/controllers.js
(look for $scope.themes
).See _test.scss for an example.
from https://github.com/Athou/commafeed