TracCar - GPS Tracking Server Setup

We will build a GPS Tracking platform !

Documentation Source: https://www.traccar.org/documentation/

Currently, the latest version of Traccar (version 6) is not compatible with latest Linux with Latest MariaDB !

Traccar (Version 5) on Debian 11

tracking.example.com

example IP: 96.7.128.175

Debian 11

root, tJb2k8g&sWm

nano /etc/hosts

96.7.128.175 tracking.example.com tracking

nano /etc/hostname

tracking

timedatectl set-timezone Asia/Dhaka

echo "Asia/Dhaka" | sudo tee /etc/timezone

reboot

apt update

apt -y install unzip mariadb-server

mariadb-secure-installation

MariaDB: root, pHv2n7s!uMc

mariadb -u root -p

CREATE DATABASE traccar;

CREATE USER 'traccar'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'eJz7kQv5mQn';

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON traccar.* TO 'traccar'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'eJz7kQv5mQn';

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

exit

reboot

service mariadb status

wget https://github.com/traccar/traccar/releases/download/v5.12/traccar-linux-64-5.12.zip

unzip traccar-linux-*.zip && ./traccar.run

cat > /opt/traccar/conf/traccar.xml << EOF

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE properties SYSTEM 'http://java.sun.com/dtd/properties.dtd'>

<properties>

    <entry key="config.default">./conf/default.xml</entry>

    <entry key='database.driver'>com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver</entry>

    <entry key='database.url'>jdbc:mysql://localhost/traccar?zeroDateTimeBehavior=round&amp;serverTimezone=Asia/Dhaka&amp;allowPublicKeyRetrieval=true&amp;useSSL=false&amp;allowMultiQueries=true&amp;autoReconnect=true&amp;useUnicode=yes&amp;characterEncoding=UTF-8&amp;sessionVariables=sql_mode=''</entry>

    <entry key='database.user'>traccar</entry>

    <entry key='database.password'>eJz7kQv5mQn</entry>

</properties>

EOF

service traccar start

service traccar status

reboot

service traccar status

apt install -y ssl-cert apache2

a2enmod ssl proxy_http proxy_wstunnel rewrite

service apache2 restart

nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/traccar.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>

  ServerName tracking.example.com

  Redirect / https://tracking.example.com/

</VirtualHost>

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>

        <VirtualHost _default_:443>

                ServerName tracking.example.com

                ServerAdmin webmaster@yourwebsite.com

                DocumentRoot /var/www/html

                ProxyPass /api/socket ws://localhost:8082/api/socket

                ProxyPassReverse /api/socket ws://localhost:8082/api/socket

                ProxyPass / http://localhost:8082/

                ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8082/

                SSLEngine on

                SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem

                SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key

        </VirtualHost>

</IfModule>

a2dissite 000-default

a2ensite traccar

service apache2 restart

apt install certbot python3-certbot-apache

certbot --apache

reboot

https://tracking.example.com