Configuration

“ihatemoney” relies on a configuration file. If you run the application for the first time, you will need to take a few moments to configure the application properly.

The default values given here are those for the development mode. To know defaults on your deployed instance, simply look at your ihatemoney.cfg file.

“Production values” are the recommended values for use in production.

SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI

Specifies the type of backend to use and its location. More information on the format used can be found on the SQLAlchemy documentation.

  • Default value: sqlite:///tmp/ihatemoney.db
  • Production value: Set it to some path on your disk. Typically sqlite:///home/ihatemoney/ihatemoney.db. Do not store it under /tmp as this folder is cleared at each boot.

If you’re using PostgreSQL, Your client must use utf8. Unfortunately, PostgreSQL default is to use ASCII. Either change your client settings, or specify the encoding by appending ?client_encoding=utf8 to the connection string.

SECRET_KEY

The secret key used to encrypt the cookies.

  • Production value: ihatemoney conf-example ihatemoney.cfg sets it to something random, which is good.

MAIL_DEFAULT_SENDER

A python tuple describing the name and email address to use when sending emails.

  • Default value: ("Budget manager", "budget@notmyidea.org")
  • Production value: Any tuple you want.

ACTIVATE_DEMO_PROJECT

If set to True, a demo project will be available on the frontpage.

  • Default value: True
  • Production value: Usually, you will want to set it to False for a private instance.

ADMIN_PASSWORD

Hashed password to access protected endpoints. If left empty, all administrative tasks are disabled.

  • Default value: "" (empty string)
  • Production value: To generate the proper password HASH, use ihatemoney generate_password_hash and copy the output into the value of ADMIN_PASSWORD.

ALLOW_PUBLIC_PROJECT_CREATION

If set to True, everyone can create a project without entering the admin password. If set to False, the password needs to be entered (and as such, defined in the settings).

  • Default value: : True.

ACTIVATE_ADMIN_DASHBOARD

If set to True, the dashboard will become accessible entering the admin password, if set to True, a non empty ADMIN_PASSWORD needs to be set.

  • Default value: False

APPLICATION_ROOT

If empty, ihatemoney will be served at domain root (e.g: http://domain.tld), if set to "somestring", it will be served from a “folder” (e.g: http://domain.tld/somestring).

  • Default value: "" (empty string)

Configuring emails sending

By default, Ihatemoney sends emails using a local SMTP server, but it’s possible to configure it to act differently, thanks to the great Flask-Mail project

  • MAIL_SERVER : default ‘localhost’
  • MAIL_PORT : default 25
  • MAIL_USE_TLS : default False
  • MAIL_USE_SSL : default False
  • MAIL_DEBUG : default app.debug
  • MAIL_USERNAME : default None
  • MAIL_PASSWORD : default None
  • DEFAULT_MAIL_SENDER : default None

Using an alternate settings path

You can put your settings file where you want, and pass its path to the application using the IHATEMONEY_SETTINGS_FILE_PATH environment variable.

For instance

export IHATEMONEY_SETTINGS_FILE_PATH="/path/to/your/conf/file.cfg"