LibreMailer is a free and open-source email marketing software that allows you to send marketing emails, newsletters, and campaigns. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install LibreMailer on Arch Linux.
Before you start, make sure your Arch Linux system is up to date and has all the necessary packages installed. You will also need a user account with sudo privileges.
LibreMailer requires a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP) to run. You can install them all at once using the following command:
sudo pacman -S apache mysql php php-apache mariadb
Once the installation is complete, start and enable the Apache and MariaDB services using the following commands:
sudo systemctl start httpd
sudo systemctl enable httpd
sudo systemctl start mariadb
sudo systemctl enable mariadb
LibreMailer is hosted on Git, so you will need to have Git installed on your Arch Linux system. You can install it using the following command:
sudo pacman -S git
Now that Git is installed, you can proceed to clone the LibreMailer repository using the following command:
git clone https://github.com/averna-syd/LibreMailer.git
This will create a new directory called LibreMailer in your current working directory.
Next, you need to configure Apache to serve the LibreMailer files. Create a new Apache virtual host file for LibreMailer using the following command:
sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf/extra/LibreMailer.conf
Add the following lines to the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName your_domain.com
DocumentRoot /path/to/LibreMailer/public
<Directory /path/to/LibreMailer/public>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Save and close the file. Make sure to replace your_domain.com with your own domain name, and /path/to/LibreMailer with the path to your cloned LibreMailer directory.
Next, enable the new virtual host and restart Apache using the following commands:
sudo systemctl restart httpd
You need to create a new MySQL/MariaDB database for LibreMailer. Login to the MySQL/MariaDB shell using the following command:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Once you are logged in, create a new database named libre_mailer using the following command:
CREATE DATABASE libre_mailer;
Create a new user and grant privileges to the new database using the following command:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON libre_mailer.* TO 'libre_mailer_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'yourpassword';
Make sure to replace 'yourpassword' with a strong password of your choice.
Exit the MySQL/MariaDB shell using the following command:
exit
Now that everything is set up, you need to configure LibreMailer to connect to the MySQL/MariaDB database.
Rename the .env.example file to .env using the following command:
cp .env.example .env
Open the .env file using your favorite text editor and update the following lines:
DB_DATABASE=libre_mailer
DB_USERNAME=libre_mailer_user
DB_PASSWORD=yourpassword
Save and close the file.
Next, install the required dependencies using the following command:
composer install
Finally, generate the application key using the following command:
php artisan key:generate
You can now access LibreMailer by navigating to http://your_domain.com. You should see the LibreMailer login page.
Enter the following credentials:
Email: admin@example.com
Password: password
Once you log in, you can start creating email campaigns and newsletters using LibreMailer.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install LibreMailer on Arch Linux. LibreMailer is a powerful email marketing software that can help you manage your email campaigns and newsletters. If you have any questions, feel free to ask us in the comments section below.
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