How to setup Mautic – The Complete Guide

Below you will see all the TODO checklist items that you have to complete when following this guide. You can check them off as you go through the guide to help you stay on track. By the end you will have a complete setup of Mautic working on a Linux Distribution.

Requirements for Mautic

Installing Linux: You are going to need to have a server that is running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on a VPS. If you can not afford a VPS you might want to first learn how to do this with a free setup using VirtualBox. You can read a complete write up on how to do that in this blog post. Getting started with LAMP.

Install Apache:

Install MySQL

Login to MySQL

Create users with MySQL

Install PHP

PHP Extensions

You will also want to setup apache to make .php files a priority in file execution order.

Download Mautic

Install composer

Create Apache Files

Edit Apache Files

Create SSL Certificates

Generate Certificate

Make logs folder

Enable site

Set the right permissions

PHP.ini Changes

Restart Apache

Clear the cache of Mautic

You’re almost ready! Let’s verify that Mautic is happy with your settings, open your favorite browser and type in the URL of your mautic setup.

If you see the above screen you are ready to go! Click on the “Next Step” button to get started.

Mautic will ask you a couple of more questions and you will have a complete working install of Mautic.

Now the last part remaining is to go ahead and setup the Cron jobs to run some of the scheduled tasks for Mautic.

Create the Cron jobs

If you get stuck anywhere or you want someone just to take care of all of this for you feel free to reach out.

Talk to you next time,

Rick H.

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