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            <h1>Running Firefly III on Linux [PHP Based Personal Finance Manager]</h1>
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          <h2>What is Firefly III?</h2>

<blockquote><em>&quot;Firefly III&quot; is a (self-hosted) manager for your personal finances. It can help you keep track of your expenses and income, so you can spend less and save more. -<a href="https://docs.firefly-iii.org/firefly-iii/installation/self_hosted/?mtm_campaign=docu-internal&amp;mtm_kwd=self_hosted" target="_blank">https://docs.firefly-iii.org/firefly-iii/installation/self_hosted/?mtm_campaign=docu-internal&amp;mtm_kwd=self_hosted</a></em></blockquote>

<h2>Installation</h2>

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	<li>Log into the Linux device</li>
	<li>Run the following commands in a terminal window:
	<div class="codeBlock"># update software repositories<br />
	sudo apt update<br />
	# install prerequisites<br />
	sudo apt install curl wget zip lsb-release apt-transport-https ca-certificates git -y<br />
	# add the php gpg key<br />
	sudo wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/php.gpg https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg<br />
	# add the php apt repository<br />
	echo &quot;deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ $(lsb_release -sc) main&quot; | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list<br />
	# update software repositories<br />
	sudo apt update<br />
	# install available software updates<br />
	sudo apt upgrade -y<br />
	# install Apache HTTPD and MySQL<br />
	sudo apt install apache2 mariadb-server mariadb-client -y<br />
	# install PHP components<br />
	sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php php8.1-common php8.1-mysql php8.1-xml php8.1-xmlrpc php8.1-curl php8.1-gd php8.1-mbstring php8.1-bcmath php8.1-zip php8.1-intl php-sodium -y<br />
	# install composer<br />
	curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer<br />
	# configure the MySQL database<br />
	sudo su<br />
	mysql_secure_installation</div>
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	<li>Press Enter to login as root</li>
	<li>Type N and press Enter to not switch to unix socket authentication</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to set a root password, type the password twice to confirm</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to remove anonymous users</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to disallow root login remotely</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to remove the test database</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to reload privilege tables</li>
	<li>Run the following command to login into MySQL:
	<div class="codeBlock">mysql -u root -p</div>
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	<li>Authenticate with the root password set earlier</li>
	<li>Run the following commands to create the Firefly database and database user
	<div class="codeBlock">CREATE DATABASE firefly;<br />
	GRANT ALL ON firefly.* to &#39;firefly_rw&#39;@&#39;localhost&#39; IDENTIFIED BY &#39;f!r3f1y:)&#39;;<br />
	FLUSH PRIVILEGES;<br />
	EXIT;<br />
	exit</div>
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	<li>Continue with the following commands:
	<div class="codeBlock"># create the firefly app<br />
	sudo composer create-project grumpydictator/firefly-iii --no-dev --prefer-dist /var/www/firefly<br />
	# set ownership of the firefly directory<br />
	sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/firefly<br />
	# limit permissions on storage<br />
	sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/firefly/storage<br />
	# change directory to the application folder<br />
	cd /var/www/firefly<br />
	# edit the .env file<br />
	sudo nano /var/www/firefly/.env</div>
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	<li>Scroll through the .env file and modify the following values
	<p>SITE_OWNER=&lt;% admin email address %&gt;<br />
	TZ=&lt;% timezone %&gt;<br />
	DB_CONNECTION=mysql<br />
	DB_HOST=127.0.0.1<br />
	DB_PORT=3306<br />
	DB_DATABASE=firefly<br />
	DB_USERNAME=firefly_rw<br />
	DB_PASSWORD=f!r3f1y:)</p>
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	<li>Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes</li>
	<li>Continue with the following commands in terminal
	<div class="codeBlock"># initialize the database<br />
	php artisan migrate:refresh --seed<br />
	php artisan firefly-iii:upgrade-database<br />
	php artisan passport:install<br />
	# create firefly apache configuration<br />
	sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/firefly.conf</div>
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	<li>Paste the following configuration into firefly.conf
	<p>Alias /firefly &quot;/var/www/firefly/public/&quot;<br />
	<directory firefly="" public="" var="" www=""><br />
	Options FollowSymlinks Includes ExecCGI<br />
	AllowOverride All<br />
	Require all granted<br />
	Order allow,deny<br />
	allow from all</directory></p>
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	<li>Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes</li>
	<li>Run the following command to enable the Firefly site
	<div class="codeBlock"># enable rewrite module<br />
	sudo a2enmod rewrite<br />
	# enable the firefly site<br />
	sudo a2ensite firefly<br />
	# restart the apache2 service<br />
	sudo systemctl restart apache2</div>
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	<li>Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/firefly</li>
	<li>Enter an email address and password &gt; Click Register</li>
	<li>Welcome to Firefly III</li>
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