Here is a link to the firefly-iii website installation instructions. You can install the csv-importer into the same container as firefly, but the only way I know how to get this to work with the single IP address of the container is to either run csv-importer in a sub directory e.g. 192.168.1.128/cs, which isn't necessarily trivial, or run your own local DNS server (which I tried and seemed to work ok). Instead, I created a seperate container just for the csv-importer. I did this by cloneing the firefly container which already had the LEMP stack installed and everything, and then installed the csv-importer in that container and updated the nginx config to point to the correct root path. To begin, first read through the official documentation so that you hav an idea of whats going on
First, create a 20.04 privileged container with 1 core, 512 mb ram, and default 8GB hard disk space, or clone the firefly container
Did I mention to first read through the official documentation?
This requires a LEMP stack and everything, so the easiest thing to do is to clone the FireFly container. I assigned it CT 120 with IP 192.168.1.120. Then, you have to install the CSV-importer app and then edit the nginx config.
If you don't do this, then first start by following the firefly-III installation instructions to get a LEMP stack and other dependicies setup. You could also follow my other guide here, and skip the database setup steps.
Here is the online install instructions. Below are the summarized commands
apt install php-bcmath
apt install php-json
Composer should be installed from the container clone. If not then install composer:
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
Install csv-importer. Change the number at the end to whatever the latest version is
cd /var/www/html
composer create-project firefly-iii/csv-importer --no-dev --prefer-dist csv-importer 2.3.1
chown -R www-data:www-data csv-importer
chmod -R 775 csv-importer/storage
cd /var/www/html/csv-importer
nano .env
Add the firefly url http://192.168.1.128
Now update nginx config. Note below the root path is /var/www/html/updated-csv-importer/public. This is because when you update, the method the documentation creates an “updated-csv-importer” folder I think as a backup. I think you could rename it back to csv-importer but if you do, make sure the nginx root file path is correct.
Note the buffers - I had upstream headers too long to read…errors and its because (I assume) the token returned from firefly is like 800 characters long
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
# server_name subdomain.yourdomain.com;
root /var/www/html/updated-csv-importer/public;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
location / {
try_files $uri /index.php$is_args$args;
proxy_buffer_size 128k;
proxy_buffers 4 256k;
proxy_busy_buffers_size 256k;
autoindex on;
sendfile off;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_read_timeout 240;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_buffers 16 32k;
fastcgi_buffer_size 64k;
fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 64k;
}
}
Now you can go to the IP address of the csv-importer container. i.e. http://192.168.1.120
You might need to flush the firefly installation by going to 192.168.1.128/flush. I don't really know what this does but in my debugging this would cause it to work at times
Online documentation here
Just run this command with the correct version number at the end. Update or move the .env file and then update nginx to refer to the new file path
composer create-project firefly-iii/csv-importer --no-dev --prefer-dist updated-csv-importer 2.3.1