Docker Firefly III - self-hosted manager for your personal finances

"Firefly III" is a self-hosted financial manager. It can help you keep track of expenses, income, budgets and everything in between. It supports credit cards, shared household accounts and savings accounts. It’s pretty fancy. You should use it to save and organise money.

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This tutorial is mostly for newcomers and those that are not so familiar with the Docker. I'm not an expert, but I want to share my installation as a tutorial to help others. For any mistakes, feel free to comment in the discussion section of this resource.

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In this tutorial, we are going to use this official automated Docker build for Firefly III: jc5x/firefly-iii

Before you start with the installation of this image you need to create a database and user for that database with a password. I use MariaDB and PHPMyAdmin for this, but this is not covered in this tutorial.

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First, go to the Registry tab in your Docker and search for jc5x. After that click on jc5x/firefly-iii and click the Download button and choose latest build:





Wait for image to download. Then go to Image tab and find jc5x/firefly-iii. Select it and click on button Launch:





Now in the Container creation wizard choose Advanced settings:





In the General settings tab you can for example set Enable auto-restart.


In the Volume tab click on Add Folder button and create a folder structure in your Docker folder for example docker//firefly-iii/storage/upload and docker//firefly-iii/storage/export.

For Mount path set /var/www/firefly-iii/storage/upload and /var/www/firefly-iii/storage/export:





In the Port Settings tab change the Local Port to your desired port.


In the Environment tab add these variables and values:

Make sure you change the value for variable APP_KEY. It should be a random string of exactly 32 characters.



Last two variables (APP_URL, TRUSTED_PROXIES) are optional. Use them if you're going to use reverse proxy. (How to set up reverse proxy?)


NOTE!

If for some reason you can't connect to your database, add also these two variables:

Ok, hit Apply button, wait a minute or two for the database to install everything, then navigate in your browser to http://yourNASip:yourLocalPort and that's it!