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Open the file names.php in your favorite text editor. Edit the values as described in the comments in the file. Don't worry about the admin name just yet. We'll get to that.

Upload the contents of the directory to your webhost and configure your permissions. I can't tell you how to do that, specifically. However, I can give you the hint that feeds.db has to be writable by the PHP process. The PHP process may not be run by your account. The directory that the database is in ALSO has to be writable by the same account. Beyond that, you should consult your webhost's documentation. If you are getting cryptic SQLite errors, it's probably a file permissions problem somewhere.

Go to the googleinfo.php page. You might have to do some approving on Google's end. Copy the "user name" that is returned. It'll really look like a web URL. Paste that value into names.php as the admin name.

Go to index.php, and click around. If you click the "Feeds" button in the header, and then the plus button in the upper left, you should be able to add a feed. The feed parser supports autodiscovery of feeds if you give it a normal blog URL, but it's not perfect. I like to try to give it the actual RSS or Atom link.

If you added a feed succesfully, congrats. Now visit update.php a few times. Did an item from your feed show up (if you set it to update hourly?) If so, set up a cron job (or a webcron job) to visit the update page every half hour. If you're using your own cron, you can use curl to access the page.

Enjoy your new aggregator! Send me an email if you have any questions or even just to say you're using FeedPope.