

$ sudo add-apt-repository 'deb focal main'
#Service traccar installed install#
Use commands listed below to install MariaDB 10.6, the current stable version of MariaDB, on the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS system: $ sudo apt-get install software-properties-common dirmngr apt-transport-https -y Traccar needs to work with a Database Management System (DBMS), such as MariaDB, MySQL, or PostgreSQL. Having the server instance up and running again, log in as traccar from an SSH terminal for follow-on work.īe aware that the tasks mentioned above are for beginners only, and more security measures are at your discretion. Update and then restart the system: # apt update Set default firewall rules with UFW: # ufw default deny # echo 'traccar ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL' | tee -a /etc/sudoers.d/designated # echo '/swap none swap defaults 0 0' > /etc/fstabĬreate a normal user named traccar with sudo privileges: # useradd -ms /bin/bash traccar Log in to your server instance as root from an SSH terminal, and then perform basic tasks as follows to harden the system.Ĭreate a swap file: # fallocate -l 2g /swap

Perform Basic Tasks on the Server Instance See detailed instructions on managing DNS through Vultr in this Vultr tutorial. To ease public access, you need to set up DNS records through your domain hosting service provider, pointing domain names (an apex domain name and one or more subdomain names) to the IPv4 address of your server.įor example, if you are hosting the apex domain name on Vultr, set up DNS records as follows to point and to the IPv4 address of your server in the DNS tab of the Vultr control panel:
#Service traccar installed how to#
This tutorial explains how to set up a Traccar server on a Vultr Ubuntu 20.04 LTS server instance in a production environment.

Traccar is a free and open-source Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking system that is capable of:
