BTCPay Server is a free, open-source, self-hosted cryptocurrency payment processor that allows you to receive payments in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to install BTCPay Server on a Fedora CoreOS Latest system.
Before you install BTCPay Server on Fedora CoreOS Latest, make sure you have the following:
You need to make sure all the packages on the system are up to date before installing any new packages. You can update the packages on your system by running the following command:
sudo dnf update
To install BTCPay Server, you need to have Docker installed on your system. You can install Docker by running the following command:
sudo dnf install -y docker
After the installation, start and enable Docker using the following command:
sudo systemctl start docker
sudo systemctl enable docker
The easiest way to install BTCPay Server is to use the Docker Compose file provided by BTCPay Server. Run the following command to download the file:
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver/master/docker-compose.generated.yml -o docker-compose.yml
Next, you need to edit the docker-compose.yml file to add your configuration settings. Open the file using a text editor and replace the placeholders with your desired values.
nano docker-compose.yml
Here are the variables you can customize:
BTCPAY_HOST - The domain name of your BTCPay Server instance.LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL - The email address used for Let's Encrypt certificate generation.BTCPAY_PASSWORD - The password used for logging in to your BTCPay Server instance.BTCPAY_SSHKEYFILE - The path to your SSH key file, used for SSH access to your BTCPay Server instance.Save and close the file.
Now you're ready to start BTCPay Server. Run the following command to start the server:
sudo docker-compose up -d
BTCPay Server will now be installed and running on your Fedora CoreOS Latest system.
You can now access the BTCPay Server dashboard by visiting the domain name you specified earlier in your web browser. For example, if you set BTCPAY_HOST to btcpay.example.com, you can access the dashboard by visiting https://btcpay.example.com.
You'll be prompted to log in with the password you specified in the docker-compose.yml file.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install BTCPay Server on a Fedora CoreOS Latest system. With BTCPay Server, you can start accepting Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on your website.
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