Grocy is an open source web-based application that helps you manage your household grocery items and track their expiration dates. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the simple process of installing Grocy on FreeBSD Latest.
Before we begin, make sure that you have the following prerequisites:
To begin, you need to download the latest version of Grocy from its official website. You can use the following command to download it:
# wget https://releases.grocy.info/latest
Once the download is complete, extract the downloaded archive using the following command:
# tar -xvzf grocy_latest.tar.gz
This will extract the files to a new directory named grocy. Move this directory to the document root of your web server.
Grocy requires some PHP modules to work properly. To install these modules, run the following command:
# pkg install php71-{pdo,pdo_mysql,session,mbstring,xml,tokenizer,json,zip,gd,gettext}
Next, you need to create a new database for Grocy. You can use either MySQL or MariaDB for this purpose. Run the following command to create a new database in MySQL/MariaDB:
# mysql -u root -p
Once you are logged in, create a new database by running the following command:
CREATE DATABASE grocy_db;
Create a new user and grant privileges to the user on the database by running the following commands:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON grocy_db.* TO 'grocy_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Replace grocy_user and password with the desired username and password for the grocy database user.
Before you can use Grocy, you need to configure it according to your needs. Copy the config-dist.php file to a new file named config.php using the following command:
# cp config-dist.php config.php
Edit the config.php file and update the following variables:
BASE_URL: The base URL of your website, where Grocy is hosted.DB_NAME: The name of the database you created earlier (i.e grocy_db).DB_USER and DB_PASSWORD: The username and password for the database user you created earlier.DEFAULT_LOCALE: The default language for Grocy (e.g en_US).You need to set the correct file permissions for the Grocy files and directories. Go to the directory where you extracted Grocy and run the following command:
# chown -R www:www *
Finally, you can access Grocy by opening a web browser and navigating to the base URL you configured in the config.php file. You should be redirected to the Grocy login page where you can log in with the default username and password (i.e admin and admin).
After you log in, you can start adding your grocery items and tracking their expiration dates.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Grocy on FreeBSD Latest. Grocy is an excellent tool for managing your household grocery items, and with this tutorial, you can have it up and running on your FreeBSD server in no time.
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