Firefly III is an open-source personal finance manager that helps you track and manage your finances. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Firefly III on Arch Linux.
Before you begin, make sure you have the following:
First, you need to install the necessary packages on your Arch Linux system. Open the terminal and update the package list with the following command.
sudo pacman -Syu
Next, install the required packages using the following command.
sudo pacman -S nginx php php-fpm mariadb
After installing the packages, you need to configure the MariaDB database. To do this, you can start by creating a new database and user using the following command.
mysql -u root -p
Enter your root password, and then create a new database and user with the following commands.
create database firefly_db;
create user 'firefly_user'@'localhost' identified by 'your_password';
grant all privileges on firefly_db.* to 'firefly_user'@'localhost';
flush privileges;
exit;
Next, you need to configure the web server. For this tutorial, we will use Nginx as the web server.
First, start the Nginx service with the following command.
sudo systemctl start nginx
Next, create a new server block file for Firefly III with the following command.
sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/firefly.conf
Add the following lines to this file.
server {
listen 80;
server_name your_domain.com;
root /var/www/firefly;
index index.php index.html;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include fastcgi.conf;
fastcgi_param GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1;
fastcgi_param SERVER_SOFTWARE nginx;
fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;
fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type;
fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $request_uri;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_URI $document_uri;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT $document_root;
fastcgi_param SERVER_PROTOCOL $server_protocol;
fastcgi_param REMOTE_ADDR $remote_addr;
fastcgi_param REMOTE_PORT $remote_port;
fastcgi_param SERVER_ADDR $server_addr;
fastcgi_param SERVER_PORT $server_port;
fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $server_name;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
}
}
Make sure to replace your_domain.com with your actual domain name.
Finally, restart the Nginx service with the following command.
sudo systemctl restart nginx
To download and install Firefly III, you need to follow these steps:
First, create a new directory for Firefly III with the following command.
sudo mkdir /var/www/firefly
Next, navigate to the directory with the following command.
cd /var/www/firefly
After that, download the latest version of Firefly III from the official website by using the following command.
sudo wget https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/releases/download/5.5.3/firefly-iii-5.5.3.zip
Unzip the file with the following command.
sudo unzip firefly-iii-5.5.3.zip
Change the ownership of the installation directory to the user you are currently logged in as with the following command.
sudo chown -R your_user:your_user /var/www/firefly
Finally, to configure Firefly III, you need to edit the .env file. Navigate to the Firefly III installation directory with the following command.
cd /var/www/firefly
Next, rename the .env.example file to .env with the following command.
sudo mv .env.example .env
Edit the .env file with your favorite text editor.
sudo nano .env
Change the following lines with the database name, database user, and user password you created in Step 2.
DB_DATABASE=firefly_db
DB_USERNAME=firefly_user
DB_PASSWORD=your_password
Save and close the file.
After completing all the above steps, open your web browser and navigate to your domain name or server IP address to access your Firefly III installation.
http://your_domain.com
Follow the on-screen instructions to set up your account and start using Firefly III.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Firefly III on Arch Linux.
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