How to setup the Ubiquiti Unifi Controller on Fedora & EL

Install MongoDB

Since MongoDB was removed from Fedora[1] it must be installed separately. The EL7 community package[1] from MongoDB works on Fedora as well.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/MongoDB_Removal

[2] https://www.mongodb.com/download-center/community

Firewall Configuration

# firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=unifi

To permit Cloud Access:

# firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=unifi-cloud

Then reload the configuration:

# firewall-cmd --reload

Enabling the SystemD service

Enabling and starting the unifi service:

# systemctl enable unifi.service
# systemctl start unifi.service

Afterwards you should be able to browse to the controller at:

https://<host>:8443

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