Install Firefly III on Linux

Table of Contents

Requirements #

PHP 8.4 #

`apt` #

Install the required packages:

apt install php-fpm php-bcmath php-intl php-curl php-zip php-sodium php-gd php-xml php-mbstring php-mysql mariadb-server nginx jq

Source Code #

The following command sets the FIREFLY_VERSION to the latest stable version of Firefly III:

export FIREFLY_VERSION="$(wget -q -O- 'https://api.github.com/repos/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/releases/latest' | jq -r '.tag_name')"

Download the archive:

wget "https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/releases/download/$FIREFLY_VERSION/FireflyIII-$FIREFLY_VERSION.tar.gz"

Download the checksum:

wget "https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/releases/download/$FIREFLY_VERSION/FireflyIII-$FIREFLY_VERSION.tar.gz.sha256"

Check the downloaded archive:

sha256sum -c "FireflyIII-$FIREFLY_VERSION.tar.gz.sha256"

MariaDB #

Setup a new database and user:

mysql_secure_installation

export MYSQL_PASSWD="$(tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 </dev/urandom | head -c 16; echo)"

mysql --execute="CREATE DATABASE firefly; CREATE USER 'firefly'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '${MYSQL_PASSWD}'; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON firefly.* TO 'firefly'@'localhost'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"

Install #

Create the folder for Firefly III:

mkdir /var/www/firefly

Extract the downloaded tar archive:

tar -xvf "FireflyIII-$FIREFLY_VERSION.tar.gz" -C /var/www/firefly/

Create the .env file:

cp /var/www/firefly/.env.example /var/www/firefly/.env

Change the owner of the files:

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/firefly

Set the correct permission:

chmod -R 0775 /var/www/firefly

Configure #

nano /var/www/firefly/.env

Initialize the database #

sudo -u www-data /usr/bin/php /var/www/firefly/artisan firefly-iii:upgrade-database

sudo -u www-data /usr/bin/php /var/www/firefly/artisan firefly-iii:correct-database

sudo -u www-data /usr/bin/php /var/www/firefly/artisan firefly-iii:report-integrity

sudo -u www-data /usr/bin/php /var/www/firefly/artisan firefly-iii:laravel-passport-keys

Nginx #

Configuration example for nginx:

server {

        listen 80;

        server_name firefly.example.com;

        # Set root path
        root /var/www/firefly/public;
        index index.php;

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
        }

        # Set FastCGI
        location ~ \.php$ {
                include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
                include fastcgi_params;
                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root/$fastcgi_script_name;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php-fpm.sock;
        }

        # Disable accessing hidden files except .well-known
        location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* {
                deny all;
        }
}

Cron jobs #

After the registration, create the cron job:

crontab -u www-data -e

0 3 * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/firefly/artisan firefly-iii:cron