nZEDb

nZEDb is a usenet indexer written in PHP.

Installation

Docker

An updated version of the simply-nzedb image is available at https://git.steamr.com/docker/simply-nzedb. Someone also created an updated version with sphinx at https://github.com/pl77/simply-nzedb.

The container image should start and the web installer should be accessible even if nothing is configured.

Steps

1. After installing nZEDb, go to the /install page and proceed with the installation. The installer will create a new /var/www/nZEDb/configuration/config.php file and a /var/www/nZEDb/configuration/install.lock file.
2. Create a new user manually by adding a new entry to the users table. Use the /var/www/nZEDb/misc/testing/DB/setUserPasswordHash.php script to generate a new password.
3. Add or enable some usenet groups under the admin panel under /admin after logging in. You might want to start off with one group going back 1 day.
4. Import predb dumps from https://github.com/nZEDb/nZEDbPre_Dumps. This will take a very long time.

To pull articles for indexing, run php /var/www/nZEDb/misc/update/update_binaries.php. The script will iterate over all articles in the enabled usenet groups.

To build releases, run php /var/www/nZEDb/misc/update/nix/multiprocessing/releases.php.