Installing Mautic on OpenBSD

Mautic is an open-source marketing automation tool designed to help businesses automate their marketing tasks. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Mautic on OpenBSD.

Prerequisites

• A running instance of OpenBSD
• An OpenBSD user with sudo privileges

Step 1: Install Required Packages

We need to install some packages before installing Mautic. Let's update the package database and install the required packages using the following commands:

sudo pkg_add -Uuv php php-xml php-gd php-pdo_mysql php-curl php-mbstring mysql-server

Step 2: Install Composer

Composer is a dependency manager for PHP that manages dependencies at the application level rather than at the system level. We will use Composer to install the Mautic application. To install Composer, run the following commands:

sudo -i
cd /usr/local/bin/
fetch -o composer.phar https://getcomposer.org/composer.phar
chmod +x composer.phar
exit

Step 3: Install Mautic using Composer

Now that we have Composer installed, we can use it to install Mautic. To do this, run the following commands:

sudo composer.phar create-project mautic/mautic /var/www/mautic --no-dev

This command will install Mautic in the /var/www/mautic directory.

Step 4: Configure MySQL

We need to create a database and a user for Mautic to use. To do this, run the following commands:

sudo mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE mautic;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON mautic.* TO 'mauticuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit

Replace password with a strong password of your choice.

Step 5: Configure Mautic

We need to configure Mautic to use the MySQL database we created in the previous step. Open the Mautic configuration file with your preferred text editor:

sudo vi /var/www/mautic/app/config/local.php

Add the following code to the file, replacing mauticuser and password with the MySQL username and password you created in the previous step:

return array (
  'db' =>
  array (
    'charset' => 'utf8mb4',
    'driver' => 'pdo_mysql',
    'host' => 'localhost',
    'password' => 'password',
    'dbname' => 'mautic',
    'user' => 'mauticuser',
    'port' => '3306',
  ),
);

Save and exit the file.

Step 6: Configure Web Server

OpenBSD comes with the Apache web server installed, so we will use it to serve Mautic. Create a new Apache configuration file for Mautic:

sudo vi /etc/apache2/htdocs/mautic.conf

Add the following code to the file:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName your-domain.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/mautic
    <Directory /var/www/mautic>
        AllowOverride All
        Options FollowSymLinks
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
    ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/mautic_error.log
    CustomLog /var/log/httpd/mautic_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Replace your-domain.com with your domain name or IP address.

Save and exit the file.

Step 7: Restart Apache

Restart Apache to load the new configuration file:

sudo apachectl restart

Step 8: Access Mautic

Mautic is now installed and ready to use. Open a web browser and navigate to http://your-domain.com. You will be prompted to set up your Mautic account. Follow the instructions to complete the setup.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we learned how to install Mautic on OpenBSD. We installed the required packages, configured MySQL, installed and configured Mautic, configured the Apache web server, and accessed Mautic in a web browser. Mautic is a powerful marketing automation tool, and now that it's installed on OpenBSD, you can start using it to automate your marketing tasks.

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