IHateMoney is a free and open-source web-based application designed to help you easily manage your personal expenses. In this tutorial, we'll guide you through the steps to install IHateMoney on POP! OS Latest.
Before you proceed with the installation, make sure that you have the following prerequisites:
First, open the terminal application on your system and navigate to the webserver's document root directory. For example, if you want to install IHateMoney in the default Apache document root directory, use the following command:
sudo apt install apache2
sudo apt install php php-zip php-mysql mariadb mariadb-server
sudo apt install composer
sudo systemctl start apache2 && sudo systemctl status apache2
If you prefer to use Nginx as your web server, you can install it using the following command:
sudo apt install nginx mysql-server php-fpm php-mbstring php-xml php-zip php-mysql composer
sudo systemctl start nginx && sudo systemctl status nginx
With your web server installed and running, you're now ready to clone the IHateMoney repository. To do this, run the following command:
git clone git://github.com/spiralout/ihatemoney.git
Next, navigate to the IHateMoney directory that was just cloned:
cd ihatemoney
You can also use the following command to clone the repository at a specific directory:
git clone git://github.com/spiralout/ihatemoney.git /path/to/ihatemoney
IHateMoney has some dependencies that may be missing on your system. Install them using composer. Run the following command in your terminal:
composer install --no-dev
This will install all required PHP packages and dependencies to run the IHateMoney application.
IHateMoney requires a MySQL/MariaDB database to store its data. Connect to your MariaDB server using the following command:
sudo mysql -u root
Create a new database for IHateMoney using the command below. Make sure to replace mydatabase with your preferred database name:
CREATE DATABASE mydatabase;
Next, create a new database user and password to use with IHateMoney. Be sure to replace myuser with a username of your choice and mypassword with a secure password:
CREATE USER 'myuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'mypassword';
Grant the new user privileges on the database:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON mydatabase.* TO 'myuser'@'localhost';
Save your changes and exit the MySQL prompt:
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit;
IHateMoney comes with a default configuration file config.py.dist.Rename it to config.py using the following command:
cp config.py.dist config.py
Open the config.py file using a text editor and update the values below with your MySQL/MariaDB database details:
SECRET_KEY = 'abracadabra' # a generated secret key
DEBUG = False
SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = 'mysql://myuser:mypassword@localhost/mydatabase?charset=utf8'
# email configuration
MAIL_SERVER = 'smtp.gmail.com'
MAIL_USERNAME = ''
MAIL_PASSWORD = ''
MAIL_PORT = 465
MAIL_USE_SSL = True
Make sure to change the SECRET_KEY to a strong hash string. You can generate a new hash using a Python console:
from os import urandom
from base64 import b64encode
b64encode(urandom(24)).decode('utf-8')
NOTE: Make sure to update the email configuration parameters.
With all of the configuration complete, IHateMoney is ready to be started. Run the following command to start the application:
python3 manage.py runserver
If the command is successful, you'll see an output similar to the following:
* Serving Flask app "ihatemoney"
* Environment: production
WARNING: Do not use the development server in a production environment.
Use a production WSGI server instead.
* Debug mode: off
* Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)
You can now access IHateMoney through a web browser by navigating to http://127.0.0.1:5000/.
In this tutorial, we walked you through the steps to install IHateMoney on your POP! OS Latest system. You should now be able to use IHateMoney to keep track of your personal expenses.
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