Lewsnetter is an open-source newsletter management software that is designed to help you create and manage newsletters. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Lewsnetter on Linux Mint.
Before we begin, make sure that you have the following:
First, you need to install some required packages on your Linux Mint system. To do this, open a terminal and run the following command:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install curl unzip nginx php-fpm php-mysql php-xml php-gd php-curl php-zip php-mbstring
This command will update your Linux Mint system and install all the required packages for Lewsnetter to work.
Lewsnetter is built with Laravel, which is a PHP framework. Therefore, we need to install composer, which is a dependency manager for PHP.
To install composer on Linux Mint, use the following command:
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
This will download and install composer on your Linux Mint system.
Now that we have installed all the required packages and composer, we can proceed to install Lewsnetter.
To do this, navigate to the /var/www directory using the following command:
cd /var/www
Then, clone the Lewsnetter repository using the following command:
sudo git clone https://github.com/bborn/lewsnetter.git
This will clone the Lewsnetter repository to the /var/www directory.
Next, navigate to the Lewsnetter directory and install all the dependencies using the following command:
cd lewsnetter && sudo composer install
This will install all the dependencies that Lewsnetter needs to work.
Now that we have installed Lewsnetter, we need to configure Nginx to serve the application.
To do this, create a new server block in the /etc/nginx/sites-available directory using the following command:
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/lewsnetter
Then, paste the following code in the file:
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com;
root /var/www/lewsnetter/public;
index index.php;
location / {
try_files $uri /index.php?$query_string;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
}
Make sure to replace "example.com" with your actual domain name.
Once you have pasted the code, save and close the file.
Next, create a symbolic link to the /etc/nginx/sites-enabled directory using the following command:
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/lewsnetter /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
Finally, restart the Nginx service using the following command:
sudo systemctl restart nginx
Lewsnetter requires a database to function. Therefore, we need to create a database for Lewsnetter to use.
To do this, open a terminal and log in to the MySQL shell using the following command:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Enter your root password when prompted.
Once you are logged in, create a new database using the following command:
CREATE DATABASE lewsnetter;
This will create a new database called lewsnetter.
Next, create a new user and grant privileges to the lewsnetter database using the following commands:
CREATE USER 'lewsnetteruser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password_here';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON lewsnetter.* TO 'lewsnetteruser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Make sure to replace "password_here" with the actual password you want to use.
This will create a new user called lewsnetteruser with the password you specified and grant all privileges to the lewsnetter database.
Finally, we need to configure Lewsnetter to connect to the database we just created.
To do this, copy the .env.example file to .env using the following command:
sudo cp .env.example .env
Then, open the .env file using the following command:
sudo nano .env
In the file, update the following settings to match your database configuration:
DB_DATABASE=lewsnetter
DB_USERNAME=lewsnetteruser
DB_PASSWORD=password_here
Once you have made the changes, save and close the file.
Now we need to run the database migrations to set up the database tables that Lewsnetter needs.
To do this, use the following command:
sudo php artisan migrate --seed
This will run the database migrations and seed the database with sample data.
Once you have completed all the previous steps, Lewsnetter should be accessible from your web browser.
To access it, open your web browser and navigate to http://example.com (replace "example.com" with your actual domain name).
You should now see the Lewsnetter login page.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Lewsnetter on Linux Mint. We hope that you found this tutorial helpful and that you are now able to set up your own Lewsnetter newsletter management system.
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