Firefly III is a personal finance management application that helps to keep track of your expenses, income, and investments. In this tutorial, we'll see how to install Firefly III on Debian Latest.
Before we start with the installation, we need to make sure that the following prerequisites are met:
The first and most important step is to update the system packages. Run the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
To run Firefly III on Debian Latest, we need to have LAMP stack installed. We can install the LAMP stack by running the following command:
sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php php-mysql php-curl php-dom php-gd php-xml
After the installation, enable the necessary extensions by running the command:
sudo phpenmod mysqli curl gd xml
Restart the Apache server:
sudo systemctl restart apache2
Now we can start with the Firefly III installation. Navigate to the website: https://firefly-iii.org/download and get the latest version of Firefly III.
Note: Please update the URL to match the latest version.
cd /var/www/
sudo wget https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/releases/download/5.7.10/firefly-iii.5.7.10.zip
Unzip the downloaded file:
sudo apt-get install unzip
sudo unzip firefly-iii.5.7.10.zip -d firefly-iii
Change ownership of the files:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/firefly-iii
Firefly III requires a database to store the data. We can create a new database for Firefly III using the following command:
sudo mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE firefly;
CREATE USER 'firefly'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON firefly.* TO 'firefly'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit
For the final step, we need to configure Firefly III with the newly created database.
Copy the .env.example file to .env and edit the file:
cd /var/www/firefly-iii
sudo cp .env.example .env
Edit the .env file and add the credentials:
APP_ENV=production
APP_DEBUG=false
APP_URL=http://localhost
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=firefly
DB_USERNAME=firefly
DB_PASSWORD=password
MAIL_MAILER=log
Save and close the file.
Open your web browser and navigate to http://your_server_ip_or_domain/firefly-iii/public.
The Firefly III setup screen should appear.
Follow the instructions on the screen to create an account and complete the installation process.
In this tutorial, we learned how to install Firefly III on Debian Latest. With Firefly III, you can manage your finances easily and securely. Happy accounting!
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