Firefly III is an open-source personal finance management tool that aims to help users manage their finances effectively. It is easy to use and comes with a range of features that makes it a popular choice among users. In this guide, we will take you through the steps to install Firefly III on Ubuntu Server Latest.
Before you start installing Firefly III, there are a few prerequisites that you need to have:
gd, intl, mysqli, json, and mbstringThe first step is to install the required packages on your server. To do this, run the following commands:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y git curl zip unzip imagemagick gnupg2
Firefly III requires a database to store all the user data. For this purpose, we will be using MariaDB. To install MariaDB, run the following commands:
sudo apt install -y mariadb-server mariadb-client
Once MariaDB is installed, run the following command to secure your MariaDB installation:
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Follow the instructions and set a root password, remove anonymous users, disallow root login remotely, remove test database, and reload privilege tables.
Firefly III requires PHP 7.3 or higher along with a few PHP extensions. To install PHP and the required extensions, run the following command:
sudo apt install -y php7.4 php7.4-gd php7.4-intl php7.4-mysqli php7.4-json php7.4-mbstring php7.4-curl php7.4-zip php7.4-xml
Next, we need to configure some PHP settings. Open the php.ini file using the following command:
sudo nano /etc/php/7.4/apache2/php.ini
Update the following settings in the file:
memory_limit = 512M
upload_max_filesize = 128M
post_max_size = 256M
max_execution_time = 600
date.timezone = <your_timezone>
Save and close the file.
Composer is a dependency manager for PHP that we need to install Firefly III. To install Composer, run the following commands:
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
Next, we need to clone the Firefly III repository using the following command:
cd /var/www/
sudo git clone https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii.git
This will clone the Firefly III repository to the /var/www/firefly-iii directory.
To install Firefly III, navigate to the firefly-iii directory and run the following commands:
cd /var/www/firefly-iii
sudo composer install --no-dev
This will install Firefly III and all the required dependencies.
If you are using Nginx as your web server, create a new server block configuration file:
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/firefly-iii.conf
Add the following configuration:
server {
listen 80;
server_name your_domain.com;
root /var/www/firefly-iii/public;
index index.php;
access_log /var/log/nginx/firefly-iii.access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/firefly-iii.error.log;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
Replace your_domain.com with your domain name.
Enable the new configuration by creating a symbolic link:
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/firefly-iii.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
Restart Nginx:
sudo systemctl restart nginx
Navigate to http://your_domain.com in your web browser, and you should see the Firefly III installation page. Follow the instructions to set up Firefly III.
Once you have completed the installation, log in to your Firefly III account and start managing your finances.
In this tutorial, we have gone through the steps to install Firefly III on Ubuntu Server Latest. Firefly III is an excellent tool that can help you keep track of your finances effectively. We hope that this guide was helpful for you.
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