Introduction
Mautic is free and open source marketing automation application that can be used to save time and increase sales. You can also integrate mautic with various email services like Gmail, Sendgrid and Mandrill.
In this tutorial we will learn how to install Mautic on Ubuntu 16.04 server.
Requirements
- A server running Ubuntu-16.04.
- A non-root user with sudo privileges setup on your server.
Update the System
First, you will need to update the system with latest version of Ubuntu. You can do this with the following command:
sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get upgrade -y
Installing LEMP Stack
Before starting, you will need to install the Nginx web server, PHP and MariaDB as a prerequisite of Mautic.
You can install this by running the following command:
sudo apt-get install nginx mariadb-server php7.0-fpm php7.0-mbstring php7.0-xml php7.0-mysql php7.0-common php7.0-gd php7.0-json php7.0-cli php7.0-curl
Output:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
libaio1 libcgi-fast-perl libcgi-pm-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libencode-locale-perl libfcgi-perl libgd3 libhtml-parser-perl
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Once installation is complete, start Nginx server and enable it to start on boot:
sudo systemctl start nginx
sudo systemctl enable nginx
You can see the status of Nginx and MariaDB with the following command:
sudo systemctl status nginx
Output:
nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sun 2016-11-13 23:42:09 IST; 2min 48s ago
Main PID: 17443 (nginx)
CGroup: /system.slice/nginx.service
├─17443 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -g daemon on; master_process on
└─17444 nginx: worker process
Nov 13 23:42:09 Node1 systemd[1]: Starting A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server...
Nov 13 23:42:09 Node1 systemd[1]: Started A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server.
Nov 13 23:44:21 Node1 systemd[1]: Started A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server.
sudo systemctl status mysql
Output:
● mysql.service - LSB: Start and stop the mysql database server daemon
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/mysql; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sun 2016-11-13 23:42:05 IST; 3min 21s ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
CGroup: /system.slice/mysql.service
├─17081 /bin/bash /usr/bin/mysqld_safe
├─17082 logger -p daemon err -t /etc/init.d/mysql -i
├─17226 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --plugin-dir=/usr/lib/mysql/plugin --user=mysql --skip-log-error --pid-fi
└─17227 logger -t mysqld -p daemon error
If MariaDB is not running, start it with the following command:
sudo systemctl start mysql
Then, enable MariaDB service to start at boot with the following command:
sudo systemctl enable mysql
Next, you will need to secure MariaDB because default MariaDb installation is not secured.
You can secure it by running the mysql_secure_installation script:
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Answer all the questions as shown below:
NOTE: RUNNING ALL PARTS OF THIS SCRIPT IS RECOMMENDED FOR ALL MariaDB
SERVERS IN PRODUCTION USE! PLEASE READ EACH STEP CAREFULLY!
In order to log into MariaDB to secure it, we'll need the current
password for the root user. If you've just installed MariaDB, and
you haven't set the root password yet, the password will be blank,
so you should just press enter here.
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Installing Mautic
First, you will need to download the latest version of Mautic from it’s official website.
Otherwise, you can download it with the following command:
wget https://www.mautic.org/download/latest
The downloaded file is a zip archive. You can extract it using unzip command:
sudo unzip latest -d /var/www/html/mautic
Next, set proper permission to mautic directory:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/mautic
Configuring MariaDB for Mautic
Next, you will need to create a database for Mautic.
First, log in to mysql shell with the following command:
mysql -u root -p
Next, create a database for Mautic with the following command:
MariaDB [(none)]> create database mautic;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> grant all on mautic.* to 'mauticuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.07 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> flush privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.04 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> exit;
Bye
Configure Nginx for Mautic
Next, you will need to create a virtual host file for Nginx.
You can do this by creating mautic.conf file inside /etc/nginx/conf.d directory:
sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/mautic.conf
Add the following lines:
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name 192.168.15.100;
root /var/www/html/mautic;
index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
location ~ .php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
}
location ~* ^/index.php {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_buffer_size 128k;
fastcgi_buffers 256 16k;
fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 256k;
fastcgi_temp_file_write_size 256k;
}
}
Save the file and create prod directory:
sudo mkdir /var/www/html/mautic/app/cache/prod
The, check the nginx configuration and restart nginx service:
sudo nginx -tsudo systemctl reload nginx
Accessing the Mautic Web Interface
Next, it’s time to access Mautic web installation wizard.
Open your favourite web browser and tipe the URL http://your-server-ip, you should see the Mautic installation wizard as below:
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Next, click on Next button and provide the MariaDB database details as follows:
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Next, create an admin user for your Mautic installation:
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Next, configure email settings:
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Once you are finished, you can log into your Mautic marketing automation platform as below:
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That’s it..
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