Mautic is a powerful open-source marketing automation tool that helps you automate your marketing tasks and track your results. In this tutorial, we'll walk you through the process of installing Mautic on Arch Linux.
Before starting, make sure your system meets the following requirements:
First, update your Arch Linux system to ensure that you have the latest packages and security updates.
pacman -Syu
Next, install the Apache web server using the following command:
sudo pacman -S apache
Once the installation is complete, start the Apache service and enable it to start automatically on boot:
sudo systemctl start httpd
sudo systemctl enable httpd
Mautic requires PHP 7.1 or later, which you can install using the following command:
sudo pacman -S php php-apache
You also need to install several PHP modules that are required by Mautic:
sudo pacman -S php-gd php-mbstring php-xml php-curl php-mysql
Mautic requires a database to store all its data. You can install MySQL or MariaDB as your database server. In this tutorial, we're using MySQL.
sudo pacman -S mysql
Follow the on-screen prompts to complete the installation.
Once the installation is complete, start the MySQL service and enable it to start automatically on boot:
sudo systemctl start mysqld
sudo systemctl enable mysqld
Before you install Mautic, create a new MySQL database and user for it.
Log in to the MySQL shell as the root user:
mysql -u root -p
Enter your MySQL root password when prompted.
Create a new database for Mautic:
CREATE DATABASE mautic_database;
Create a new user for Mautic and grant it permissions on the database:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON mautic_database.* TO 'mautic_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
Replace the username and password fields with your desired values.
Flush the privileges to apply the changes:
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Exit the MySQL shell:
exit;
Download the latest stable version of Mautic from the official website.
sudo pacman -S unzip
wget https://github.com/mautic/mautic/releases/download/mautic-3.3.3/3.3.3.zip
unzip 3.3.3.zip
sudo mv mautic /var/www/html/
Update permissions and ownership of the Mautic directory:
sudo chown -R http:http /var/www/html/mautic
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/mautic/
Next, create a new Apache virtual host configuration file for Mautic:
sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf/extra/mautic.conf
Add the following configuration directives to the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin@example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/mautic
ServerName example.com
<Directory /var/www/html/mautic>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/mautic_error.log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/mautic_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Replace the server name and admin email with your own values.
Save and close the file.
Enable the Apache rewrite module, which Mautic requires:
sudo a2enmod rewrite
Restart the Apache service to apply the changes:
sudo systemctl restart httpd
Open your web browser and navigate to your domain or IP address.
You should see the Mautic installation screen. Follow the prompts to configure Mautic with your MySQL database connection details, admin user name, and password.
After the installation is complete, you can log in to the Mautic dashboard using the admin credentials you specified during the installation.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Mautic on Arch Linux.
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