This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing phpList on Fedora CoreOS Latest. phpList is an open source email marketing software that allows you to easily send newsletters, campaigns, and other communications to your subscribers.
Before installing phpList, you need to have the following prerequisites:
Go to the phpList website (https://www.phplist.com/) and download the latest version of the software. You can download the package as a zip file or as a tarball. Once downloaded, extract the files to a directory on your server.
$ wget https://phplist.org/files/phplist-3.6.4.tgz
$ tar -xvzf phplist-3.6.4.tgz
Next, you need to create a new database and user for phpList in MySQL. Log in to MySQL using the command:
$ mysql -u root -p
Create a new user and database for phpList:
CREATE DATABASE phplist;
CREATE USER 'phplistuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON phplist.* TO 'phplistuser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Replace phplistuser and password with your own desired username and password.
Now you need to configure Apache to serve phpList. Create a new virtual host configuration file by running the following command:
$ sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/phplist.conf
Add the following contents to the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName yourdomain.com
ServerAlias www.yourdomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/phplist/public_html
<Directory /var/www/html/phplist/public_html>
Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/phplist-error.log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/phplist-access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Replace yourdomain.com with your own domain or subdomain. Save and close the file.
Restart Apache to load the new configuration:
$ sudo systemctl restart httpd
Navigate to the directory where you extracted phpList in Step 1:
$ cd phplist-3.6.4
Copy the config file and edit it to match your MySQL configuration:
$ cp config/config_extended.php config/config.php
$ nano config/config.php
Scroll down to the database settings section and enter your MySQL database information as follows:
define('DATABASE_NAME', 'phplist');
define('DATABASE_USER', 'phplistuser');
define('DATABASE_PASSWORD', 'password');
define('DATABASE_HOST', 'localhost');
define('DATABASE_TYPE', 'mysqli');
Replace phplistuser and password with your own MySQL username and password.
Save and close the file.
Open your web browser and navigate to your domain or subdomain. You should see the phpList installation page. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.
After installation, set the permissions of the lists directory to allow phpList to write files:
$ sudo chmod 775 /var/www/html/phplist/lists
You have successfully installed phpList on your Fedora CoreOS Latest server. Now you can use phpList to send newsletters, campaigns, and other communications to your subscribers. Happy emailing!
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