In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation process of Firefly III, a personal finance application that helps you manage your money. We will be installing Firefly III on FreeBSD Latest.
Before starting the installation process, you will need the following:
First, we need to install some required packages for Firefly III. Open the terminal on your FreeBSD server and run the following command:
sudo pkg install php74 php74-sqlite3 php74-simplexml php74-tokenizer php74-session php74-mbstring git
This command will install the required packages.
Next, we need to clone the Firefly III repository from GitHub by running the following command:
sudo git clone https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii.git /usr/local/www/firefly-iii
This command will download the Firefly III source code to the directory /usr/local/www/firefly-iii.
Firefly III requires a web server to run. We will be using the default Apache HTTP server. Run the following command to create a new Apache virtual host file for Firefly III:
sudo vi /usr/local/etc/apache24/Includes/firefly-iii.conf
Add the following configuration to the file:
Alias /firefly-iii /usr/local/www/firefly-iii/public
<Directory /usr/local/www/firefly-iii/public>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
Save and close the file by pressing Escape, then typing :wq and pressing Enter.
Now, restart the Apache server to apply the changes by running:
sudo service apache24 restart
Your web server is now configured and ready to run Firefly III.
We need to configure Firefly III for the first use. Copy .env.example to .env configuration file by running the following command:
sudo cp /usr/local/www/firefly-iii/.env.example /usr/local/www/firefly-iii/.env
Edit the configuration file:
sudo vi /usr/local/www/firefly-iii/.env
Update the following settings in the file:
APP_URL='http://YOUR_SERVER_IP_OR_DOMAIN/firefly-iii'
CACHE_DRIVER=file
SESSION_DRIVER=file
Save and close the file.
Finally, run the following command to install Firefly III:
cd /usr/local/www/firefly-iii
sudo php artisan firefly-iii:install
Follow the prompts and enter the required information to complete the installation:
Once the installation is complete, you can access Firefly III by visiting http://YOUR_SERVER_IP_OR_DOMAIN/firefly-iii in your web browser.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Firefly III on FreeBSD Latest.
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