# INSTALL for Zort
# $Id: INSTALL,v 1.9 2007/07/29 22:24:47 cyb0rg Exp $

Welcome to Zort!
http://zort.sf.net/

REQUIREMENTS
------------

  * A webserver of some sort (tested with Apache 1)
  * PHP (tested using PHP 4.3.x and 4.4.x)
  * Ability to create a directory writeable by the webserver user

  If you want to sanitize the HTML from your feeds, so that they
  play nicely inside of Zort:
  * PECL Tidy for PHP4, or --enable-tidy in configuration for PHP5
    (highly recommended!)

INSTALLATION
------------

  1) Untar Zort anywhere in a web-accessible directory.
  2) Make sure that the "cache" directory is writeable by the webserver.
  3) Move one of the sample configs from the "examples" directory to
     config.php in the main directory, and edit it to include the
     categories/feeds you want to use.
  
  That's it!
  
  Optionally:
  4) If you want to use a different MagpieRSS other than the one bundled,
     make sure that the subdir "magpierss" in Zort's dir points to the
     MagpieRSS installation you want to use.  Note that the currently-
     bundled MagpieRSS has been slightly modified, so you'll be missing
     out on a few Zort features if you don't use the bundled version.
     You can see all of my modifications in the file magpierss/zort.patch.

CONFIGURATION
-------------

Comprehensive documentation on configuring Zort can be found in the
"examples" directory.  config-complex.php is the most complete document.
See the README.TXT file in that directory for more details.

COPYRIGHT
---------

Files in the "magpierss" directory are copyrighted by Kellan
Elliott-McCrea and any other authors of MagpieRSS
(magpierss.sf.net).  They have been licensed under the
GNU GPL.  Questions about MagpieRSS should be addressed to
kellan@protest.net.

MagpieRSS in turn includes software copyrighted by Monte Ohrt
and released under the LGPL version 2.1.  See the MagpieRSS
documentation for more information on that.

The rest of the content is covered by the following copyright:

Zort - A PHP-based Server-Side RSS/Atom Aggregator
Copyright (C) 2005  Christopher J. Kucera

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

CJ Kucera
cyb0rg@users.sf.net

