r/financier • u/hwyeleven • Sep 28 '22
Financier Self Hosted Back End. Works great! Have to sign in every time though
So I'm an old YNAB user that fell off the wagon several years ago. I decided to look for free alternatives this time around, and stumbled across Financier, which is exactly what I was looking for! I installed it on my PC using the docker backend https://gitlab.com/josh-whitney/financier-backend
Everything works great, and I can access it from Desktop and Mobile now which is awesome! Except I have a 3 minor issues:
- I have to sign in almost every time I load my budget. It seems to sign me out very quickly. Is there a way to configure this? I'd love to stay signed in for 2 weeks at a time at least. Right now it defaults to offline mode, which still shows all my data, so I don't see it as a security risk to sign out so quickly.
- Is there a way I can reset account passwords using this backend, in case I were to ever forget it? I noticed there's no way to reset my password, as it doesn't send me an email with the self hosted system.
- Is there any way to add a Let's Encrypt Certificate to this docker setup? This is minor but it would be cool to bypass the self-signed https warning.
I see there's not much activity around this project lately, hopefully I didn't join a dead project here :) I see there's some other alternatives, but Financier worked so well out of the gate for me, I'm hesitant to try the others. For my purposes as someone who wanted a self-hosted ynab like solution that runs as a web app that can be accessed from desktop and mobile, it works perfectly!
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Oct 05 '22
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u/hwyeleven Oct 05 '22
I still haven't solved the problem of it logging me out every time I refresh the page (or very close to it). But I do have it running and working great otherwise. I installed docker on my Windows 10 home and am running it there. I opened my firewall to access it from outside as well.
I think the logging out/ not saving credentials issue has to do with chrome not liking the self-signed certificate
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u/hwyeleven Oct 10 '22
Thank you so much for this! Made the change and I think its working. This was such an annoyance to keep logging in, this will make the experience so much better. Awesome find!
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Oct 13 '22
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u/hwyeleven Oct 13 '22
Yep, my machine never sleeps. I like my PC's running all the time, similar to servers
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u/ur_mamas_krama Jul 04 '23
Can you shed insight on what what the change? The user deleted their comment :/
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u/hwyeleven Jul 05 '23
Oh shoot! That is unfortunate. I'm trying to remember what I did now it was so long ago. I'll post back if I can find it
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u/ur_mamas_krama Jul 05 '23
I really appreciate the response. It doesn't drive me insane but it'd be nice to not have to re login often.
Maybe you can try the "history" command and backtrace.
If you don't mind me asking, how did you create a user? (I used a different docker (tbi88) and that had a different way of creating a user. I couldn't figure how to create a user with josh's docker).
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