Installation Guide for Ubuntu/Debian/Kali/CentOS/RedHat¶

PostgreSQL¶

Install PostgreSQL >= 9.6 (local or remote)
Follow the installation guide from PostgreSQL site for:

• Ubuntu

• Debian

• Redhat

Redis¶

Install Redis using apt-get

apt-get install redis-server

redis_session_storage = localhost

Installing Faraday¶

Step 1 - Downloading Faraday Installer¶

To download Faraday installer (.deb or .rpm)

• GitHub for Community Edition

• Faraday Portal for Professional/Corporate

Step 2 - Installing the package¶

Go to your Download directory and run the following command

sudo dpkg -i ./faraday-server_amd64.deb

sudo apt install ./faraday-server_amd64.rpm

Step 3 - Adding User to faraday Group¶

Once installed, add your user to the faraday group and re-login

sudo usermod -aG faraday $USER

Step 4 - Initializing the Database (first time only)¶

This will generate a random password, use it for Faraday Web UI and change it

faraday-manage initdb

Importing License¶

faraday-manage import-license

or, in isolated servers, download the license file from the portal and place it in /home/faraday/.faraday/doc/

NOTE: old license files should be removed from doc folder when is a re-import.

tar xvf {license file}.tar.gz

Running Faraday¶

Start Faraday server by running:

sudo systemctl start faraday-server

We highly recommend you to check our First Steps guide, and advanced guide for starting websockets server.