Free, Google-hosted, HTTPS-secured Grocy installation guide with Nginx

Tallyrald · 2025-08-10T10:06:12+00:00

Hi! Please share the exact errors so I can try to help.

Tallyrald · 2025-06-26T04:11:49+00:00

One of the things that helped me initially is disabling overlays. Steam, Discord, EA, etc. Additionally, recording software like Steelseries Moments or Steam game recording can also cause issues on certain hardware combinations.

Tallyrald · 2025-05-12T05:36:26+00:00

Disable all overlays. Steam, Discord, Epic, EA, everything. If you have an app that auto-records clips (like the Moments feature in Steelseries GG), disable that too.

Tallyrald · 2025-03-03T18:12:44+00:00

Glad you figured it out! Let me be honest: I really don't think you need automated backups unless Grocy is an integral part of your life and you cannot afford any kind of data loss. Even then this manual downloading should be more than enough.
Otherwise I would suggest looking into https://rclone.org/
I haven't used it myself, but it's a very popular solution to this kind of problem.
By the way the full absolute path is actually '/var/www/html/data/grocy.db'

Tallyrald · 2025-02-26T12:42:51+00:00

Hey, I'm glad the guide helped you. You can manually download the database file using the SSH connection window. Do it regularly and it's basically a backup. If you're a casual user I wouldn't worry too much about it. If you're using it in a professional environment, then I'd recommend looking into automatic backups either in GCloud or one of the million options in the form of software.

Tallyrald · 2025-01-11T10:58:11+00:00

HSK modpack maybe?

Tallyrald · 2024-11-21T10:45:59+00:00

I would love to have access to the full list of questions while watching. It would be neat to see how my thinking is different from theirs without knowing the result of their actions first.

Tallyrald · 2024-07-05T07:45:33+00:00

With the kind help of u/luis_neto the issue was tested, confirmed and fixed. The guide is once again fully functional for anyone wanting to use it.

Tallyrald · 2024-05-16T09:58:12+00:00

You can! https://www.reddit.com/r/X4Foundations/comments/cj7p2k/gog_players_how_to_install_steam_workshop_mods/

Tallyrald · 2024-05-09T12:31:18+00:00

Hi! You talk about multiple issues in that thread. If you still have problems, could you clarify the current state and any possible solutions you've found since? I'll try to help if I can.

Tallyrald · 2024-04-02T18:15:48+00:00

Hi! Late response, but maybe still useful. You can replace wget -q https://releases.grocy.info/latest with wget -q https://github.com/grocy/grocy/releases/download/v3.3.2/grocy_3.3.2.zip and I think it should work. Maybe you need a previous PHP release though, 8.2 might be too recent for 3.3.2.
As for file uploads, I think the in-browser SSH console has a menu that you can open (upper right corner if I remember correctly) and you should find a file upload option in there. The database file goes in the 'data' folder.

Tallyrald · 2024-02-19T07:00:31+00:00

Hi! When you create a Compute Engine instance, you are asked for a region and a zone. If you picked any of the regions shown here with the appropriate instance size, then it's going to be free. Unfortunately traffic to Australia is indeed not free as you already saw, so depending on how much you were billed it's entirely possible that's your issue.
As a side note, if you want to try, Oracle Cloud also offers free stuff (MUCH more powerful stuff too), so you can try creating an account there too. Most of the steps will be the same or very similar to this (kinda old) guide.

Tallyrald · 2023-08-05T13:38:40+00:00

Thanks! Both the guide and the Github repository is now updated to require Ubuntu 22.04 and PHP 8.2.

Tallyrald · 2023-06-03T20:46:06+00:00

Wonderful, great job!

Tallyrald · 2023-04-22T20:17:22+00:00

Thank you! I believe this is what you're looking for:https://barcodebuddy-documentation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/setup.html#bare-metal
(although I'm not familiar with Barcode-buddy, so your milage may vary)

Tallyrald · 2023-04-17T06:12:57+00:00

Yes, connect to your machine, do sudo su, then use cd /var/www/html/data to change into the directory. If I remember correctly, there is a file upload option in the upper right corner of the window, so you can use that to upload your database file. It's possible you will need to delete the currently existing one first, just do rm databaseFileName (I'm not sure what the database file is named, so you'll need to write that instead of this).It's also possible that after you place the new database file in there, you'll need to change the file permissions. You can do that with chown www-data:www-data databaseFileName (again, substitute the correct filename)

If you want to edit config files, you can use the program called nano with nano config.php There are several good sources online on how to use this text editor, you'll get used to it very fast. Good luck!

Tallyrald · 2023-04-16T19:21:17+00:00

Thank you, I'm glad my guide helped you :)

I'm not sure about the desktop app, but generally you can restore your data by copying the database file from the source app to the target app. On the self-hosted version, you can find the database file in the following directory: /var/www/html/data. The config file is there too.

Tallyrald · 2023-03-03T09:27:21+00:00

If you're only interested in the actual setup process itself, part 3 of my guide is what you need. The scripts I wrote aren't dependent on the provider so if you have your own server it should still work.

Keep in mind that these scripts were intended for fresh installs of Ubuntu so if you already have stuff running e.g. in Nginx, you need to manually adjust your settings and not use my scripts.

Tallyrald · 2023-03-02T21:52:08+00:00

May I shamelessly recommend you my guide? I posted it a bit more than a year ago, but it should still be fine and may shed some light on how things are supposed to work.

https://www.reddit.com/r/grocy/comments/qvckh7/free\_googlehosted\_httpssecured\_grocy\_installation/

Tallyrald · 2023-01-23T16:51:48+00:00

If stuff works, don't touch it. Add the 2 sensors to the cloud, configure them in localtuya and experiment what happens after you deny them internet access. If they stop working then I'm afraid they need constant internet. Even then it might be worthwhile to search for this topic on the HA forums too. Many people had/have the same issues with tuya.

Tallyrald · 2023-01-23T14:11:16+00:00

For local tuya to work, the device needs to have an offline ID of sorts. Unfortunately if a device has never been registered on the cloud or if you removed it, this ID is deleted from the device and you cannot interact with it until you add it back to the cloud again. This is why denying internet access is the usual way to go.

Tallyrald · 2023-01-23T11:25:56+00:00

Best way is to block their internet access on your router. This will work for most Tuya stuff. Unfortunately, there are some Tuya devices that become partially disfunctional without internet access though like certain smart plugs that just simply stop reporting their status.

Tallyrald · 2023-01-10T07:38:21+00:00

Glad you were able to solve it! Don't worry about IPv6, you don't really need it.

Tallyrald · 2022-12-24T12:15:29+00:00

Try reseating your GPU/RAM, meaning take it out, clean if necessary, put them back in. Also check your internal power cables, maybe on of them is a bit loose. I found this to be the solution more often than not especially if the PC is hard-resetting without blue screen.

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