Firefly III is an open-source, self-hosted personal finance manager. It allows you to keep track of your income, expenses, budgets, and investments in one place. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Firefly III on your Fedora Server Latest.
Before proceeding with the installation of Firefly III, make sure that you have the following prerequisites:
First, you need to install some PHP modules that are required by Firefly III. You can install them using the following command:
sudo dnf install php-opcache php-json php-mbstring php-xml php-pdo php-mysqli php-tokenizer php-gd
You can download Firefly III by visiting the official website at https://firefly-iii.org/. Once you are on the website, click on the green "Download Firefly III" button to download the latest release.
Alternatively, you can use the following command to download the latest release from the command line:
wget https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/releases/latest/download/firefly-iii-latest.zip
After downloading the Firefly III archive, extract it to your web server's document root directory. You can do this using the following command:
sudo unzip firefly-iii-latest.zip -d /var/www/html/
Once the extraction is complete, change the ownership of the Firefly III directory to the Apache user and group:
sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/firefly-iii/
Before proceeding with the installation of Firefly III, you need to create a database for it. You can do this using the following command:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Enter your MySQL root password when prompted, and then execute the following commands to create a new database, user, and grant permission to the user to access the database:
CREATE DATABASE firefly_db;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON firefly_db.* TO 'firefly_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Replace the firefly_db, firefly_user, and password placeholders with your desired names and password.
Next, you need to configure Firefly III. Rename the .env.example file in the Firefly III directory to .env and edit it using your favorite text editor:
sudo cp /var/www/html/firefly-iii/.env.example /var/www/html/firefly-iii/.env
sudo nano /var/www/html/firefly-iii/.env
Update the following lines in the .env file with the appropriate values:
APP_URL=http://your_domain_or_IP
DB_DATABASE=firefly_db
DB_USERNAME=firefly_user
DB_PASSWORD=password
Save and close the file.
You are now ready to complete the installation of Firefly III. Open your web browser and navigate to http://your_domain_or_IP. You will be redirected to the Firefly III installation page.
Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation. When prompted, enter the database name, user, and password that you created in Step 4.
Once the installation is complete, you will be redirected to the Firefly III login page. Enter the default login credentials, which are admin for the username and admin for the password. You should change the default password as soon as possible.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Firefly III on your Fedora Server Latest.
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