Manual Configuration

Configure FreeTAKServer < 1.9

Depending on the linux distro your config file for FTS will be in a python version dependant location. you can use pip to discover the location. Type:

 sudo python3 -m pip show FreeTAKServer

If you are running python 3.11 you would get

/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/FreeTAKServer/controllers/configuration/MainConfig.py

You can edit the file via nano with the following command

sudo nano /usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/FreeTAKServer/controllers/configuration/MainConfig.py

To exit nano ctrl+x and then enter y to save and hit enter.

DBFilePath

OPTIONAL this should not be necessary since FTS 1.5 you need to change the DBFilePath value to something valid, if you are running as root, /root is a good choice.

Original Value

# this should be set before startup
DBFilePath = str(r'/opt/fts/FTSDataBase.db')

As roots Home Folder

# this should be set before startup
DBFilePath = str(r'/opt/fts/FTSDataBase.db')

MySQL database

FTS supports an abstraction layer, so it's easy to use a different database like MySQL. MYSQL is still experimental support, so use at your own risk. To switch to a MySQL database

# this should be set before startup
DBFilePath = str('user:pass@localhost/dbname')

And then under

sudo nano /usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/FreeTAKServer/controllers/configuration/DatabaseConfiguration.py

Change

DataBaseType = str('sqlite:///')

To

DataBaseType = str('mysql://')