Firefly DataImporter not showing up

Hello Forum,

new to Firefly and Actual Budget. Just doing basic test with out of the box/default install.

When installing Firefly with Data Importer, i can’t see the data importer in the navigation bar nor does the firefly search find anything about import.

Looking into the process logs, i can see the following


2025-09-03 11:11:39.595260+00:00Firefly III data importer v1.7.10

2025-09-03 11:11:39.595309+00:00PHP: cli 8.4.11 Linux

2025-09-03 11:11:39.767739+00:00[03-Sep-2025 13:11:39] NOTICE: fpm is running, pid 149

2025-09-03 11:11:39.768487+00:00[03-Sep-2025 13:11:39] NOTICE: ready to handle connections

2025-09-03 11:11:40.756214+00:00curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 8080 after 0 ms: Couldn't connect to server

2025-09-03 11:11:40.757377+00:00❌ There seems to be a failure in checking the NGINX + PHP-FPM.

2025-09-03 11:11:40.768477+00:00curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 8080 after 0 ms: Couldn't connect to server

2025-09-03 11:11:40.769291+00:00HTTP Status Code: 000

edit: i found this on github There seems to be a failure in checking the NGINX + PHP-FPM. · firefly-iii · Discussion #10196

But not sure what their solution was

Been about a year since i used firefly and the data importer, but back then it was a seprate webui

you can chose external port mapping and the dataimporter will show up on the apps page, but problem persists as the page wont load. same error in the logs