Here is the localhost/vps deployment if anyone wants to test it : https://github.com/scripting/rss.chat/issues/2
This is fantastic! And it’s very well documented, complements to you and @claude!
Hi Scott — the server install just got simpler. Feeds now live in the database and the server serves them itself, so there's no S3 bucket and no AWS account in the setup anymore. install.md and config.md are updated to match. Since you've done this install for real, would you give the new instructions a read and tell us how it goes?
OK, I'll put an agent on it. 🕵️♂️
As a test we're doing a straight install on a new, throwaway server. node is installed locally using fnm, and I've asked Claude to install mysql and caddy with docker.
Short answer: it worked. 😃
Claude did find a couple of stumbling blocks (it didn't know what port needed to be proxied, and there was a websockets error logged that wasn't really an error), but I'll write issues for those.
That was fast — thanks for the real-world test. The port gap is already fixed: step 8 of install.md now says the server listens on 1420, and that websockets have their own port. One detail worth knowing: the websocket default is 1422, not 1462 — 1462 is just what this server happens to use.
We did another test install with the updated docs. The agent picked up the port right away. It also suggested updating the docs to mention using "flUseMySql2": true with MySQL 8 and posted an issue at https://github.com/scripting/rss.chat/issues/10