In this tutorial, you will learn how to install phpList on Void Linux. phpList is a well-known and free email marketing software that is used by many businesses to send newsletters, ads, and other email marketing messages to their subscribers.
Before we begin the installation process, we need to run an update on our system packages to make sure that we have the latest software versions. Run the following command:
sudo xbps-install -Suv
This will update your system packages to the latest version.
You will require a web server and a database to host and run phpList. In this tutorial, we will use Apache web server and MariaDB database.
To install the web server and database, run the following command:
sudo xbps-install -S apache mariadb
Once the installation is complete, you can start and enable the services to ensure that they run automatically during system boot:
sudo ln -s /etc/sv/apache /var/service/
sudo ln -s /etc/sv/mariadb /var/service/
Since phpList is a PHP application, you will require PHP modules to run it. To install PHP modules, run the following command:
sudo xbps-install -S php php-apache php-mysqli php-cgi php-ctype php-dom php-gd php-iconv php-imap php-json php-mbstring php-msgpack php-mysqlnd php-opcache php-pcntl php-posix php-session php-xml php-zip
You can verify that the PHP modules are installed correctly by running the following command:
php -v
This will display the PHP version along with the installed modules.
You can download the latest version of phpList from their official website using the following command:
wget https://dl.phplist.com/latest.zip
This will download the latest version of phpList as a zip file.
Unzip the downloaded file:
unzip latest.zip
Move the extracted files to your web server document root:
sudo mv phpList-3.6.1 /srv/http/
Make sure that the web server has appropriate access to the phpList directory by running the following command:
sudo chown -R http:http /srv/http/phpList-3.6.1/
phpList requires a database to store its data. In this tutorial, we will use the MariaDB database to store phpList data.
Log in to MariaDB console:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Create a new database for phpList:
CREATE DATABASE phplist;
Create a new user and grant full privileges to the phpList database:
CREATE USER 'phplistuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON phplist.* TO 'phplistuser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Replace password with your desired password.
Exit MariaDB console:
exit
To configure phpList, navigate to the phpList directory:
cd /srv/http/phpList-3.6.1/
Rename the config.sample.php file to config.php:
mv config/config.sample.php config/config.php
Open the config.php file with any text editor of your choice:
nano config/config.php
Update the following lines with your MariaDB database details:
# Uncomment and complete the values for your SQL server:
$database_host = 'localhost';
$database_name = 'phplist';
$database_user = 'phplistuser';
$database_password = 'password';
Make sure to replace password with the password you set in Step 6.
Restart Apache web server:
sudo sv restart apache
You can now access phpList by typing the following URL in your web browser:
http://localhost/phpList-3.6.1/lists/admin/
This will redirect you to the phpList login page. Enter the administrator username and password, which will be the default:
Username: admin
Password: phplist
Once you have successfully logged in, you can change the administrator username and password to ensure the security of your installation.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured phpList on Void Linux.
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