Tutorial: Install DadaMail on Alpine Linux

Introduction

DadaMail is a modern mailing list manager that allows you to create and manage email campaigns for your website or business. Alpine Linux is a minimal Linux distribution that provides a lightweight and secure environment for running your applications. In this tutorial, we'll walk you through the installation process of DadaMail on Alpine Linux latest.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, ensure that the following prerequisites are met:

• A basic understanding of Linux commands and how to use a terminal
• A server running Alpine Linux latest
• Superuser (sudo) or root privileges

Step 1: Update your system

The first step is to update your system to ensure that all packages are up-to-date:

sudo apk update && sudo apk upgrade

Step 2: Install required packages

Next, we need to install some packages required by DadaMail. Run the following command to install Perl, Apache, and MySQL/MariaDB:

sudo apk add perl apache2 mariadb mariadb-client

Step 3: Download DadaMail

Download the latest version of DadaMail from the official website http://dadamailproject.com/download/. You can use the wget command to download it directly from the terminal:

wget http://dadamailproject.com/download/VERSION/dada.zip

Replace VERSION with the latest version number of DadaMail.

Step 4: Extract DadaMail

Once it's downloaded, extract the zip file and move it to the /var/www/htdocs/ directory:

unzip dada.zip -d dada
sudo mv dada /var/www/htdocs/

Step 5: Configure MySQL/MariaDB

Next, we need to configure the MySQL/MariaDB database for DadaMail. First, start the MySQL/MariaDB service:

sudo rc-service mysql start

Then, log in to the MySQL/MariaDB server as the root user:

mysql -u root -p

Create a new database for DadaMail:

CREATE DATABASE dadamail;

Create a new user and grant privileges to the DadaMail database:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON dadamail.* TO 'dada'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'PASSWORD';

Replace PASSWORD with a strong password for the DadaMail user.

Flush the privileges and exit MySQL/MariaDB:

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit;

Step 6: Configure Apache

Now, we need to configure Apache to serve DadaMail. Create a new Apache virtual host file for DadaMail:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/conf.d/dada.conf

Add the following lines to the file:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerAdmin admin@example.com
  DocumentRoot /var/www/htdocs/dada
  ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/dada-error_log
  CustomLog /var/log/apache2/dada-access_log combined
  <Directory "/var/www/htdocs/dada">
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Replace admin@example.com with your email address.

Then, enable the Apache rewrite module:

sudo a2enmod rewrite

Restart the Apache service for the changes to take effect:

sudo rc-service apache2 restart

Step 7: Configure DadaMail

Open your web browser and navigate to your server's IP address or domain name. You should see the DadaMail setup wizard:

Follow the instructions to configure DadaMail using the MySQL/MariaDB database you created in Step 5.

Once DadaMail is installed, delete the dada.zip file:

sudo rm dada.zip

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install DadaMail on Alpine Linux latest. Now, you can use DadaMail to create and manage your email campaigns. For more information on how to use DadaMail, check out the official documentation: http://dadamailproject.com/support/documentation-10_x/

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